Copenhagen Zoo Kills 4 Lions After Controversial Giraffe Death
Four lions were euthanized to improve the zoo's breeding program.
A Denmark zoo that earned international condemnation for killing a healthy giraffe last month has euthanized four African lions.
The Copenhagen Zoo put down a 16-year-old male lion, a 14-year-old lioness, and two young lions this week to make way for a new male lion from the Givskud Zoo, also in Denmark.
"The change in the lion pride had to happen now because Copenhagen Zoo currently has two young females from the 2012 litter and it is ideal to keep these as part of the new pride and then find a suitable male," the zoo wrote in a Wednesday statement on its website.
"If the Zoo had not made the change
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