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Healthy giraffe killed in Denmark despite 500,000-euro offer to save it

Zoo then invites public, including children, to watch autopsy before remains are fed to a lion

A vet gets ready for autopsy in front of a crowd. Photo: AFP

Copenhagen Zoo turned down offers from other zoos and €500,000 (HK$5.25 million) from a private individual to save the life of a healthy giraffe before killing and slaughtering it yesterday to follow the inbreeding recommendations made by a European association.

The almost two-year-old male giraffe, named Marius, was put down using a bolt pistol, a zoo spokesman, Tobias Stenbaek Bro, said.