Shame on #EAZA & #Denmark a country out of control!! Healthy young giraffe, Marius, put down at Danish zoo!! A perfectly healthy young giraffe has been shot dead at Copenhagen Zoo despite thousands of animal lovers signing online petitions to save it. There were reportedly several attempts made to save Marius. A Swedish zoo, which is not part of the EAZA network, tried in vain to get Marius transferred, the Expressen daily reported and another daily, Denmark's Ekstrabladet, quoted a Danish promoter living in Los Angeles, Claus Hjelmbak, as saying he had found a buyer for the animal. "One of my close friends, a billionaire, said that he wanted to transfer a few million so we could save the giraffe," Mr Hjelmbak was quoted as saying. "He could easily have lived in his garden in Beverly Hills, but the zoo director was not interested in a sale. I'm angry." The zoo had made clear from the beginning of the protest that its policy was not to sell the animals. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2014-02-09/healthy-young-giraffe-marius-put-down-at-danish-zoo-despite-protests/1261786