The wildlife park that offered to take Marius has a state-of-the-art giraffe house.

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Yorkshire Wildlife Park (YWP) was among several zoos that offered to rehouse Marius – a private individual apparently also offered to buy him for €50,000 (£41,000) – but received no response. In a statement, the park said without knowing the full details it would be inappropriate to comment further.

Copenhagen zoo's silence was more surprising because Yorkshire's head of hoofed animals is Danish, and the YWP has already taken a young male giraffe from the Danish zoo.

"YWP has a state-of-the-art giraffe house built in 2012 with a bachelor herd of four male giraffes and the capacity to take an extra male, subject to the agreement of the European stud book keeper. One of the YWP giraffes is Palle, who came from Copenhagen zoo in September 2012, when he was the same age as Marius," the statement said.

Holst said that though Yorkshire participated in the giraffe breeding programme, Marius was not the right genetic match, and if they had space it should be reserved for a genetically more valuable giraffe.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/09/marius-giraffe-killed-copenhagen-zoo-protests

I am still upset over this.
It feels like they were going to kill that giraffe come hell or high water. It makes no sense. That species is not endangered but there aren't eleventy billion of them.

They can talk until the end of time. Nothing they have said sounds like a real reason to have killed the giraffe. He was a friendly animal.

Bastids!!!

Smh....sigh.......