Denmark Zoo Roasted For Dissecting Healthy Lion In Front Of 400 People

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October 16, 2015

Jaaaay-sus, education is reaching new levels of fuckery these days.

In Australia, we learn about health and safety from a giraffe in the back of a van, and in Denmark, primary school kids learn about nature, anatomy, and the absolute certainty of death by watching a lion get dissected.

Yup. This happened:

Killing Cecil the Lion wrong.
Denmark disecting a lion in public in a zoo right?
Bloody hell !! pic.twitter.com/JoX5jZmw39

— Bobstar (@BobbyMageroski) October 15, 2015

The nine-year-old lion was one of three put down by Odense Zoo after they failed to find him a home, and had spent the last nine months in a freezer (where his brother and sister still reside).

He was skinned, carved up and gutted in front of 300-400 children and adults – starting with cutting off the lion’s tongue.

“Is there anyone who would like an eye?” joked zoo guide Rasmus Kolind, before he chopped off and skinned the lion’s head, BECAUSE THAT IS A PERFECTLY NORMAL THING TO ASK A 4-YEAR-OLD. Or anybody, come to that.

Penny for your paw?

Odense Zoo’s lion dissection leaves children more fascinated than horrified #zoos #odensezoo http://t.co/ZY9E5xRdM0 pic.twitter.com/ov8JAdHjAy

— The Copenhagen Post (@cphpost) October 15, 2015

He and fellow zoo guide / masochist Lotte Tranberg also at one point stuck a tube down the lion’s neck and tried to recreate a roar by blowing.

When the thing started to smell – as dead animals do when you put their insides outside – Kolind simply said: “Wouldn’t it be stranger if I were standing here cutting up an animal that smelled like flowers or something else? Dead animals smell like dead animals. There’s not a lot to say about that.”

Denmark zoo criticized for public dissection of a lion in front of crowd of children http://t.co/dL9MtOWVgO pic.twitter.com/IpbbHGW3BM

— WSYX ABC 6 (@wsyx6) October 15, 2015

The whole incident has been condemned by the Humane Society International in Europe as “making a macabre spectacle out of a much deeper tragedy” that highlighted the problem of overbreeding.

The zoo has responded to severe backlash by a gruesome photo and a message to Facebook:

“Part of the debate about the lion is whether it is okay to dissect it while guests are viewing. In Odense Zoo we have in 20 years ongoing dissected animals while zoo guests are watching. We believe that animals should have a good life and a dignified death. [If our guests can learn about] a lion’s anatomy by cutting it up, we do it. However, it will always be up to each guest, if you wish to attend it.”

Helloo-ooo-ooo-o.