Expiration after a German Zoo removed Babuini due to overpopulation

A zoo in the southern German city of Nuremberg removed 12 healthy Guinea Babuini due to overcrowding in their enclosure, after which they were fed predators.

Seven animal rights activists were arrested on Tuesday after entering the Zoo Tiergarten Nuremberg in protest of the decision. A woman glued her hands to the ground near the entrance.

Overpopulation has led to the “increase of conflicts” between the baboons and no alternative to re -accommodation can be found, the zoo said.

Christoph Maisak, head of the German Legal Association for Animal Protection Act, said that leaving animals to reproduce too freely, “cannot be such a reason” for their murder.

The Nuremberg Zoo announced plans to kill some of Guinea’s baboons last year after its population exceeded 40 – more than 25, which could be placed from a complex completed in 2009.

Zoos in other countries that have previously been sent baboons have also reached the capacity and contraception measures have failed to slow down population growth, the zoo said.

On Tuesday morning, the zoo announced that it was closing for “operational reasons”, triggering demonstrators to climb over the zoo fence near the entrance where they were arrested.

Later, the zoo confirmed that he had killed the baboons – none of whom had been pregnant or part of research. The animals were filmed, samples were taken for research purposes, then their bodies were submitted to the zoo predators.

Dag Enke, a zoo director, said the decision came after “years of view” and that the killing of animals could be a “legal last resort for the preservation of the population”.

Encke added that the action is in line with the criteria set by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA).

An animal rights groups filed a criminal appeal against the zoo for the Babuini Impatization, which were in “perfect health”.

A spokesman for Pro Wildlife said the decision was “avoiding and illegal”, adding: “Healthy animals should be killed as the zoo maintains an irresponsible and unstable breeding policy for decades.”

European zoos have previously caused disputes to weaning animals.

In 2014 a zoo in Copenhagen pulled a giraffe – Named Marius – because his genes were too close to the other giraffes in the zoo’s breeding program.

After the death of the giraffe – during which the corpse was cut, cut and then ate the lions – was broadcast live onlineS