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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