[Taxacom] Killing of zoo giraffe to avoid inbreeding

[Kim van der Linde]

 > On 2/10/2014 6:24 PM, Ken Kinman wrote:
  > Yorkshire Wildlife Park offered to put him in their recently formed 
bachelor group of giraffes.

That bachelor group is part of the breeding program to keep some animals 
for future breeding. They already have his brother there so only 
duplicating his genes, and he would take up a spot of another animal in 
the breeding program.

Kim