I mean, if an elephant dies what do they do with the body?
Look man, we’re not giving it to you. Please stop asking.
RFK, is that you?
That’s Secretary of Raw Milk RFK to you, buddy.
If the animal was healthy when it was alive and if it’s big enough, I believe they butcher the carcass and feed them to the carnivores. ~~I remember a news story about a recently deceased giraffe was fed to the lions in the zoo. ~~
I was wrong, the giraffe was killed to prevent inbreeding.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/02/09/world/europe/denmark-zoo-giraffe/index.html
When giraffes breed as well as they do now, then you will inevitably run into so-called surplus problems now and then.
Bruh
That sounds like a warning to others lol. Don’t inbreed or we’ll feed you to the lions
Tbh, that’s just solid advice for anyone.
A local zoo has a “taxidermy department” and noteworthy animals are preserved or skinned and the skins sold to friends of the zoo.
Its kept very secret because it would be publicly unpopular. A friends dad has a mountain lion skin because he is a contractor who does a lot of work for the zoo and did a few jobs for them that NEEDED to be done basically for cost when they were suffering some financial troubles. They gave him the pelt as a Xmas present.
Source: Trust me, bro.
It is so hypocritical that it’s unpopular with zoo-goers that come to look at animals in cages, while wearing leather and eating other animals.
If you’re against exploitation of animals, please align your actions with your morals and live vegan.
“If you can’t be perfect you have no justification for being good”
Didn’t say anyone should be perfect, just apply your morals consistently
“If you don’t apply your morals consistently, don’t bother applying them at all”…?
Human beings are not rational actors. It’s a recipe for burnout and depression to walk around expecting them to be.
For anybody feeling the way parent commenter feels, do yourself a favor and let it go. We’re human beings. What we are is what we are.
do yourself a favor and let it go
I will stay angry as long as people are putting animals in gas chambers. The voiceless rely on people to stand up, they cannot end their own oppression.
You don’t need to be angry to speak and act.
I mean, maybe you feel like you do, but to anyone else reading this—that’s a trap.
Anger is poison.
Find a way to be happy and live well and stand for what matters to you.
you don’t have to be vegan to help stop animal cruelty. there are many, many humane and legit ways to help animals without veganism. not drinking milk or eating eggs doesn’t matter.
“You don’t have to stop the faucet before starting to mop”
When I was in college the biology department got donated half of a lion for dissection by veterinary students. We got the back half. I feel like that said something significant about the quality of my education.
Who tf just donates half a lion?
How do you end up in a position where you have two halves of a lion to donate in the first place??
If you only have the space to display half a taxidermy lion, which half you choosing?
The left half
Neither 😂
I saw that one zoo cooked up and ate a dead ostrich.
Interesting! There’s a butcher shop near me that sells ostrich. I think those ones are raised for meat though.
thought you meant feeding a lion a dead orca whale. I’m high
Living on a farm tells me: Animal Carcass Disposal Options Rendering • Incineration • Burial • Composting
We almost never lost an animal (200 head of beef cattle), but even the best cared for animals past away eventually.
Thank you! That’s wild. I didn’t think a large animal could be incinerated. The more you know! ⭐
Well, if you want more information: Biosecure Cow Cremator.
Note, there are two sizes available!
It kinda looks like a Traeger grill…
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
…one bite at a time?
What do you do if you have a horse that dies or has to be put down? You call your neighbor down the road who has an excavator and ask him to dig you a horse sized hole. Then you bury it. If you don’t, you won’t want to leave your house for at least a week.
As someone who grew up with horses, in most cases the hole is dug first with a ramp, the horse is walked into the hole, then it’s euthanized.
Yep.
Hello traumatic memory I had been successfully repressing.
Definitely easier if you can plan it in advance.
Why not walk the horse onto the trebuchet and make it your neighbor’s problem?
Looks like elephant is back on the menu boys!
Look up animal rendering
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