{"id":166694,"date":"2020-10-27T18:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/?p=166694"},"modified":"2020-10-27T18:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:23:17","slug":"copenhagen-zoo-kills-three-wolves-so-their-enclosure-can-be-used-for-modern-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/copenhagen-zoo-kills-three-wolves-so-their-enclosure-can-be-used-for-modern-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen Zoo kills three wolves so their enclosure can be used for modern expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Copenhagen Zoo kills three wolves just so their enclosure can be used for modern expansion; what price for progress; wildlife is cheap!<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>The three male wolves have been kept at Copenhagen zoo since the 1980s<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>They were killed in order to make way for a \u2018new and modern area\u2019 at the zoo<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Wolf enclosure will soon become a part of the elephant and antelope open area<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/grey-wolves-oregon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6893 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/grey-wolves-oregon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/grey-wolves-oregon.jpg 672w, https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/grey-wolves-oregon-191x100.jpg 191w, https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/grey-wolves-oregon-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a>Three wolves have been killed to make way for a \u2018new and modern area\u2019 at Copenhagen Zoo.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Staff at the zoo in Denmark\u2019s capital said the three male wolves, who have been kept in the enclosure since the 1980s, were killed after their 40-year-old enclosure no longer met with current animal requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The wolf enclosure will temporarily serve as a playground for children before becoming a part of the elephant and antelope open area.<\/p>\n<p>Technical director of the zoo, Mads Frost Bertelsen, said: \u2018We are constantly checking our facilities, both out of consideration for the animals and with a view to the guest experience.<\/p>\n<p>The three male wolves, who have been kept at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark since the 1980s, were killed to make way for a \u2018new and modern area\u2019. (Stock image)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The wolf enclosure was 40 years old and long ago no longer met the requirements that are made today in animal welfare.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Therefore the facility had to be closed so that we can create a new and more modern area. Since we couldn\u2019t put the zoo\u2019s three male wolfs anywhere else, we had to kill them. \u2018<\/p>\n<p>The zoo has said brown bears will also disappear in order to create more space for the more popular polar bears.<\/p>\n<p>It comes just a year after a 23-year-old white rhino named Kurt was killed at Copenhagen Zoo \u2018for its own wellbeing\u2019 after losing 880lbs in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/world-news-icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3547\" src=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/world-news-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/world-news-icon.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/world-news-icon-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The animal was thought to have been suffering from a skin condition called superficial nectolytic dermatitis, which primarily attacked the rhino\u2019s face, mouth and nostrils.<\/p>\n<p>The enclosure will become a part of the elephant and antelope open area at Copenhagen zoo<\/p>\n<p>The zoo in Denmark said brown bears will also disappear in order to create more space for polar bears. Pictured: A brown bear in Copenhagen Zoo<\/p>\n<p>Vets at the zoo in Denmark\u2019s capital said severe ulcers meant Kurt had lost all desire to eat prior to his death this morning.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Danish zoo sparked international outrage after killing two lions and their two cubs to make way for a new male lion.<\/p>\n<p>The zoo said it had to kill the two cubs as they were \u2018not old enough to fend for themselves\u2019 and would have been killed by the new male lion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Original story by: By Bhvishya Patel For Mailonline<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Original publication: 13:54 EDT, 26 October 2020 | Updated: 14:01 EDT, 26 October 2020<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen Zoo kills three wolves just so their enclosure can be used for modern expansion; what price for progress; wildlife is cheap! The three male wolves have been kept at Copenhagen zoo since the 1980s They were killed in order to make way for a \u2018new and modern area\u2019 at the zoo Wolf enclosure will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,14],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-166694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-news","category-wolf","category-wolfdoguk","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166706,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166694\/revisions\/166706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}