In Germany they are brought to a Tierkörperbeseitigungsanlage according to the Tierkörperbeseitigungsgesetz.
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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.
Soups on?
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.
You wouldn't want to eat an animal that's died of natural causes, it's usually old and tough, or still died of an undiagnosed infection while old so not further investigated.
All meat sold for human consumption must be certified, not gonna happen with random dead zoo animals in any developed country.
If the zoo staff decide to go for it without, that's probably on them, but they can't sell or even legally give it away.
Ostrich is quite nice though, it's a very lean, red meat. Like a gamey beef I'd say, but not as intense as deer.
To clarify, the case I was referencing involved a zoo keeper killing an animal in self defense. The ostrich did not die naturally. I'll link a video about it in case you're interested.
Ah right, that's different then. Still don't think they could legally sell it, but would be fine to eat, most likely.
thought you meant feeding a lion a dead orca whale. I'm high
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.
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Look up animal rendering
I have direct experience with this.
In college, I got a job on campus in their Environment, Health, and Safety department. Mostly, I just calibrated fume hoods in labs.
During my time there, a hippo at a nearby zoo passed away. I don’t want to be too specific because it can be a bit icky, but they essentially shipped it to us for incineration.
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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.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
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I think I remember some years ago a zoo fed a dead giraffe to the lions and people went absolutely insane about it. I'm not sure about the details anymore, they might have killed it because there wasn't enough room in the zoo for it? Either way I didn't get it, what do they think the lions are fed any other day? Animals that weren't killed explicitly to become food? Some cows that couldn't bear existence on this world anymore and offered themselves as lion food? Where is the difference?
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My zoo buries them on the premises. I know of a camel, a moose and a few other things got buried there. They have a large plot of land that is used to dispose of organic waste like branches and trees, old compost, etc until it's full and needs to be tricked out to the landfill. They just bury the animals under the ground there.
Fuck that's probably righteous compost by now
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