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Odense Zoo in central Denmark has invited children to watch a lion being dissected next week, one year after staff at Copenhagen Zoo received death threats for letting kids watch a dead giraffe being cut open, according to seven59.dk and the British Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

Wallberg Sorensen, a zookeeper at the Odense Zoo, said the animal was put down nine months ago because the zoo had too many lions and it has since been kept in a freezer.<\/p>\n

”We\u2019re doing this in public because we believe there\u2019s a lot of education involved in dissecting a lion,” he said, adding that the zoo has performed public dissections of lions in the past without prompting any negative reactions. ”Visitors find it interesting to see a lion cut up.”<\/p>\n

Doctor Pieter Kat of LionAid said: ”European zoos continue breeding programmes for lions, with no conservation benefit. As a result, zoos end up with more animals than they can handle.”<\/p>\n

Copenhagen Zoo prompted a storm of criticism in February last year for putting down a healthy giraffe and dissecting it in front of children.<\/p>\n

The zoo\u2019s scientific director received death threats after Marius, a healthy 18-month-old giraffe, was put down despite numerous offers for him to be rehoused and thousands signing an online petition to save him.<\/p>\n

Read the original article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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the zoo had too many lions and it has since been kept in a freezer.<\/p>\n<p>”We\u2019re doing this in public because we believe there\u2019s a lot of education involved in dissecting a lion,” he said, adding that the zoo has performed public dissections of lions in the past without prompting any negative reactions. ”Visitors find it interesting to see a lion cut up.”<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Pieter Kat of LionAid said: ”European zoos continue breeding programmes for lions, with no conservation benefit. 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