Zoo kills rare Abyssinian Lions and sells the bodies to be stuffed.

[NNadir]

They don't have the money to keep them apparently.

Rare Abyssinian lion cubs are being poisoned at a zoo in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and their bodies are then sold on to be stuffed.

The zoo, founded by Ethiopia's former Emperor Haile Selassie, says they poison a number of cubs each year because they do not have the space or money to look after them.

"We can send them to the forest and to some governmental palaces but most of the time we send them to the taxidermists," said the Lion Zoo administrator Muhedin Abdulaziz.

He said the taxidermists pay about $175 (£90) for each cub and they are then sold for $400 (£210).

At least "no one is happy about the situation."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6169742.stm

[LonelyLRLiberal]

1. Didn't they try to sell them to zoos in the U.S. or Europe?

This is so sad.

[xultar]

2. Ignorant assholes. They could sell them to other zoos or give them to zoos.

:cry:

[marmar]

3. That is truly sad....

When I was in London last week there was a picture of two tiger cubs that had been killed and stuffed in one of the papers.
Mankind won't be satisfied until all other living things have been wiped out.