Zoos, revisited

I was going to write a short entry about the killing of Marius the giraffe at the Copenhagen zoo last week, but I came a great article by Karen Dawn that pretty much sums up my position on this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-dawn/they-shoot-giraffes-dont-_b_4763335.html

As the article points out, what happened to Marius is fairly widespread, though most of the cases aren't as public. It's time we took a long hard look at zoos. The model is outdated, and, contrary to popular belief, there is a lot of animal suffering that goes on there.