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I mean, if an elephant dies what do they do with the body?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

If the animal was healthy when it was alive and if it's big enough, I believe they butcher the carcass and feed them to the carnivores. ~~I remember a news story about a recently deceased giraffe was fed to the lions in the zoo. ~~

I was wrong, the giraffe was killed to prevent inbreeding.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/02/09/world/europe/denmark-zoo-giraffe/index.html

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That sounds like a warning to others lol. Don't inbreed or we'll feed you to the lions

[–] Timecircleline 3 points 6 days ago

Tbh, that's just solid advice for anyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

When giraffes breed as well as they do now, then you will inevitably run into so-called surplus problems now and then.

Bruh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

In Germany they are brought to a Tierkörperbeseitigungsanlage according to the Tierkörperbeseitigungsgesetz.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 225 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Look man, we're not giving it to you. Please stop asking.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

That's Secretary of Raw Milk RFK to you, buddy.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago (7 children)

When I was in college the biology department got donated half of a lion for dissection by veterinary students. We got the back half. I feel like that said something significant about the quality of my education.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Who tf just donates half a lion?

How do you end up in a position where you have two halves of a lion to donate in the first place??

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you only have the space to display half a taxidermy lion, which half you choosing?

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I think I remember some years ago a zoo fed a dead giraffe to the lions and people went absolutely insane about it. I'm not sure about the details anymore, they might have killed it because there wasn't enough room in the zoo for it? Either way I didn't get it, what do they think the lions are fed any other day? Animals that weren't killed explicitly to become food? Some cows that couldn't bear existence on this world anymore and offered themselves as lion food? Where is the difference?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (31 children)

A local zoo has a "taxidermy department" and noteworthy animals are preserved or skinned and the skins sold to friends of the zoo.

Its kept very secret because it would be publicly unpopular. A friends dad has a mountain lion skin because he is a contractor who does a lot of work for the zoo and did a few jobs for them that NEEDED to be done basically for cost when they were suffering some financial troubles. They gave him the pelt as a Xmas present.

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