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Zoothanasia
Research taken from "zoothanasia" is not euthanasia: words matter,' Zookeepers around the world that are facing limited capacity and pressure to maintain diverse and vibrant collections of endangered species, are often choosing between two controversial methods: birth control and euthanasia. In the United States, the choice is contraception. Chimps take human birth control pills, giraffes are served hormones in their feed, and grizzly bears have slow-releasing hormones implanted in their forelegs. Even small rodents are included.
There has been inhumane cases in Europe where they have killed animals that are not needed. Killing animals in zoos because they don't "figure into breeding plans" is not euthanasia, and this is where "zoothanasia" fits in. Animals are becoming innocent victims to human arrogance and ultimately greed. Ways in which zoos are argued their morals is by waiting 'to euthanize animals until their parents have had a chance to raise them, questions can come up. It might seem suspiciously convenient for zoos to destroy an animal just after it has completed its most adorable phase — given that baby animals are a top zoo attraction.'
An example of zoothanasia occured at a zoo in Denmark in 2014. The zoo was responsible for killing an 18 month old giraffe, as it did not suit the parks breeding programme. A zoo in the UK offered to take on the perfectly healthy Giraffe as opposed to killing it, but the Danish Zoo killed Marius anyway. What is worse is that they publicly dissected the Giraffe and fed it to the lions in the zoo. The zoo described this as a display of scientific knowledge about animals, and that it would have been 'silly to let the meat go to waste.' Naturally, this caused outrage and protests across the globe.
