14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, on Monday, a lion family was put to sleep by staff at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark. The news is now making headlines, and there are many who cannot help but criticize the facility over its decision to kill the felines.
Media reports say that the lion family that was euthanized at Denmark's Copenhagen Zoo was made up of two adult lions and their cubs.
By the looks of it, the two young lions that were killed together with their parents were just 10 months old.
Talking to the press, spokespersons for the facility explained that, regardless of how many people disapproved of Copenhagen Zoo's actions, the fact remained that putting the felines to sleep was the best thing to do.
This is because the zoo is expecting to receive a new male lion in the days to come, and having it come face to face with the cubs and their parents would have not been a very good idea, The Telegraph informs.
Thus, Copenhagen Zoo spokespersons said that the new arrival would have surely attacked the lion family.
Since the parents were fairly old and the cubs too young, the newcomer would have likely killed them as soon as it had the chance.
Hence, staff at the facility decided that, since there was no way for the lion family to be able to look after themselves and keep safe, there was not much else to do except euthanize them.
Probably looking to avoid any more bad publicity, the Copenhagen Zoo stressed the fact that, before killing the lion family, they attempted to find a new home for the felines.
However, nobody offered to take them in, and so the big cats were killed.
Now that the lion family is out of the way, the adult lion expected to soon arrive at this facility will be able to romance the two females left at Copenhagen Zoo to its heart's desire and without any interruption.
Interestingly enough, this is not the first time when the Copenhagen Zoo gets loads of media attention, and for all the wrong reasons.
Thus, it was earlier this year, on February, when staff at the zoo killed a 18-month-old giraffe named Marius, dissected it in front of visitors, and then fed its corpse to lions.
At that time, the Copenhagen Zoo excused itself by saying that it had to kill Marius due to the fact that, because its genes were fairly common, it was not suitable for breeding.