Copenhagen Zoo staff receive death threats over giraffe

Officials at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark say they received death threats after the zoo killed a two-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions.

Zoo spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro said that he and the zoo’s scientific director, Bengt Holst, received several threats over the telephone and in emails. They quoted one email as saying: “The children of the staff of Copenhagen Zoo should all be killed or should get cancer.”