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8/15/2025

Topic Reading-Vol.4861-8/15/2025

Dear MEL Topic Readers, 
Denmark zoo asks people to donate unwanted pets to feed predators and imitate ‘natural food chain’
Carnivores, like lions, tigers, wolves, and sharks, are animals that primarily eat meat or other animals. They can be predators or scavengers and play a vital role in the food chain by regulating populations of other animals. In zoos in Denmark, when animals have died or been culled to avoid inbreeding or maintain a healthy population, they are fed to predators in the zoo. For example, when a young healthy giraffe named Marius was euthanized to avoid inbreeding in 2014 in the Copenhagen Zoo, it was fed to other zoo animals (Vol. 685). So, it was not new when a zoo in northwest Denmark posted on social media channels last month a call for unwanted animals, such as chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, and small horses, to feed its carnivores. It said those donated animals would be gently euthanized by the zoo’s trained staff and then served as food for lions, lynxes, and Sumatran tigers. It is, indeed, the natural food chain that is essential for the survival of all animals in a given biosphere. When you have a domestic animal whose life is about to end, would you eat it yourself, bury it if you have the land, or donate it to feed predators?
Read the article and learn about how the food chain is maintained in zoos in Denmark.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/04/europe/denmark-aalborg-zoo-pets-predators-intl-hnk

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