Warning: GRAPHIC VIDEO ahead in this post. Yesterday we posted about how zookeepers at the Copenhagen Zoo killed a "surplus" giraffe by the name of Marius over the weekend. On Sunday, the giraffe was fatally shot after zoo management decided that despite his good health, there were enough giraffes in their facility and they didn't need more, reports the New York Times.

The zoo's staff are confused by how their actions have made animal rights activists freak out. After all, they've been doing the same thing for wild boars too.
“People said, ‘If you kill the giraffe, I’ll kill you,’ ” the zoo’s scientific director Bengt Holst said. “It’s insane.”
Could giving Marius away to other zoos solve the issue? Holst says no, and that it could lead to other problems like inbreeding.
“We don’t do it to be cruel; we do it to ensure a healthy population,” Mr. Holst added. “You have to breed them to make sure the population is renewed.”
Marius’ parts are now meals for the zoo’s lions, tigers and leopards.

Below is the truly graphic video of it.