A second Danish zoo giraffe will not be killed, the Jyllands Park Zoo announced on Friday. The announcement counters widespread media reports that the animal was on death row.

"There is no plan, and there has never been a plan to neither move or euthanize any of our giraffes," the zoo wrote on its Facebook page Friday.

"The media stories are only based on a hypothetical situation, which we have answered questions about. This situation now seems to be eliminated," the Facebook post says.

A week after the killing of a Copenhagen Zoo giraffe named Marius caused a global uproar, Jyllands Park announced that it would also euthanize its male reticulated giraffe—bizarrely, also named Marius—if a breeding female