Marius

Beautiful Marius in the Coppenhagen Zoo  

Conscious, sentient, gentle-spirited, Marius looks out at those who visit him each day wondering if they are also. Maybe not so much because he was recently killed at the Coppenhagen Zoo to make way for more animals!

Copenhagen Zoo kills 4 lions, weeks after shooting giraff
By Laura Smith-Spark and Bharati Naik, CNN
Updated 11:47 AM EDT, Wed March 26, 2014

(CNN) -- A Danish zoo that made international headlines last month when it killed a healthy giraffe is once again in the news after it killed four lions to make way for a new male.The lions were killed Monday, said Tobias Stenbaek Bro, a spokesman for the Copenhagen Zoo.