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''Before the public 'euthanasia' of the gypsies considered intellectually inferior or as carry ing ph ysically und esirable. traits were made to gain momennun. Social media has been saturated with condemnation, both before and after this senseless deed. to suffer under the l azis and laws were enacted in sever al countries, including S()me states in the USA, to prohibit o r restrict marriage with such groups known as ' miscegenation', a concept which found its way to the aparcheid era of South Africa. This barbaric act soured unfortunate anima l, a petition by 27,000 people to save the harmless animal was ignored many pet lovers. The action was justified by Lesley Dickie, the Executive Director of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, on the grounds of limited space. The Copenhagen Zoo says it was prev enti n g in- breeding. Was it? We have hopefully not heard the end of the story. scrutiny of the followers of eugenics

There are rumours that zoo staf~ including Bengt Holst, Director of Research and Conservation, have received warnings and even death threats. What e lse could one expect? Before the public 'euthanasia' of the unfortunate animal, a petition by 27,000 peop le to save che harmless animal was ignored. After the outrageous act, another pe.ti rion signed by 16,000 people have called for Bengr Ho lst ro be sacked.

''Charles Darwin's ideas are quite the opposite to those of eugenics, however much the e ugenics camp cries to say otherwise. ln Darwin's The Descent of lvl,m, he wrote : "With savages, the weak in body or mind are soo n eliminated; and those th at survive commonly exhibit a vigoro us state of health We civilised men build asylums for the imbecile., the maimed, and the sick our medical men exert their utmost skill ro save the li.fe of every one The a id which we. fee.I impelled to give to the helpless i s mainly [a] result of sympathy".

There had been offers co house the animal such as by Yorkshire \'(i iJdlife Park which has state-of- the.

Some of the introduced fauna in

Darwin knew the value of human sympathy. He had personaJly suffered when looking after his own children's maladies The. Narional Disability Sc heme, enacted in 2013 in Australia m ight have gained approval under true Darwinian princip les, but it ,vould not pass the arc facilities for giraffes, but they received no response which raises the susp icion that the. Cope.a.hagen Zoo was determined to publicly kill the animal. If that is the case, were d1ey crying to prove that they alone have the right to determine which animal li ves or dies?

Fairfax Media reveals that some sixty- five animals were put down in Sydney's Taronga Zoo last year. TF1ere was no p ublic fanfare or provocative announcements.

Australia have gone 'feral ; which is an emotionally loaded word used to malig n animals who have moved into the bush and become

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In Australia we a re taught by our educarion system to be kind to animals. Those who ill- treat animals have been taken to courts and petpetracors of in fl.icting cruelty have even been jailed. In one well- reported case, a former Premier of NSW eville \\7ran, was taken to court because stray donkeys had wande red into a property owned by him. Those donkeys were in an emaciated condition, and Wran pointed o ut that he did not visit the property

''Some of the introduced fauna in Australia have gone 'feral', which i s an emotionall y loaded word used to m;ilign animals who have moved into the bush and become naturali sed. Animals Ausu·ali;i writes: "The word 'feral' is incorrectly used [it] accu rately refers to native as weU as non - native animals However, i t also has overtones of 'savage' and 'brutal'. 'Pest', 'noxiou s' and 'vermin' are similarl y emotionally loaded words which have no place in a sound and scientific d iscuss ion of these issues".

The emotional use of words with regard to introduced species is found in the paper The Gret1t Feral Ct1! Con Joh: The Ungentle Ait Of Srt1pegoating t111d Scarev1011ge1ivg by Frankie Seymour. The paper debunks myths li ke "Rabbits may have caused extinctions in arid Australia". Public acts of barbarism s uch as that meted out to d1e innocent Marius, muse no t be allowed to be repeated.