It was just a puppy. His fault was that he was born in captivity. A zoo in Switzerland, the Dählhölzli in Bern, has decided to kill a small brown bear with a fatal injection, which has been bullied by its dominant male father. The news comes after the Copenhagen Zoo killed the Marius giraffe, dissecting it in public and feeding it to lions.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
It was just a puppy. His fault was that he was born in captivity. A zoo in Switzerland, the Dählhölzli in Bern, has decided to to kill a little brown bear with a fatal injection, bullied by her dominant male father. The news comes after it Copenhagen Zoo killed Marius the giraffe, dissecting it in public and feeding it to lions.
The big male is called Misha, money 360 kg and he had already killed one of the little siblings, right in front of the visitors. He was probably jealous of the attention Mama Bear, Masha, was giving to her babies, at least according to zoo staff. Both adults arrived at the zoo in 2009 after being donated by then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his wife.
The zoo explains that behind the terrible decision was the will to spare the surviving puppy further stress and suffering. Activists, of course, have been on a war footing for days. They stormed there Facebook page of the structure and they ask so that the mother and the little ones have not been separated from the male. A more than legitimate question, given the ethology of bears.
In nature, in fact, usually after childbirth the mothers move away from the male, just to protect the puppies, which can be perceived as rivals, risking death. Bears are solitary animals. Despite this, the zoo continued to keep the animals. And he assures that a separation would cause "behavioral disturbances" due to their "extremely strong bond".
Also according to the structure, the male bear was becoming more and more dominant and the mother was beginning to reject the surviving cub. Hence the absurd choice to kill him. A useless and painful death of a puppy born behind bars of a cage. RIP.
Roberta Ragni
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