#Denmark a country of sick, sick people!! Giraffe Is Lion Food in Graphic Slaughter: Copenhagen Zoo Kills 18-Month-Old for Big Cats "I STOOD BEHIND WITH A RIFLE, AND WHEN HE PUT HIS HEAD FORWARD AND ATE THE RYE BREAD, THEN I SHOT HIM THROUGH THE BRAIN," MADS BERTELSEN, THE ZOO VETERINARIAN, TOLD REUTERS. "IT SOUNDS VIOLENT, BUT IT MEANS THAT MARIUS HAD NO IDEA OF WHAT WAS COMING. HE GOT HIS BREAD, THEN HE DIED." The giraffe was fed to the lions after being shot with a bolt gun in front of various spectators, many of them children. The graphic display included a Copenhagen Zoo employee explaining the process while slicing up Marius into chunks, which were then fed to the big cats.