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Tiger babies sleeped in the Leipzig Zoo - Peta Plant Ads!
In the Leipzig zoo, three newborn tiger babies were put to sleep after the mother switched from them. Animal rights activists react indignantly.
Tiger babies sleeped in the Leipzig Zoo - Peta Plant Ads!
In the Leipzig Zoo, three newborn Amurtiger babies were killed in extremely tragic circumstances. According to reports from Picture The mother, the Amurtiger "Yushka", turned away from her boy after the birth. This incident occurred in the first week of the tiger babies, which were neglected and finally had to be put to sleep. The zoo emphasizes that this was an unfortunate step, but necessary to save the animals a suffering from starvation.
Zoo director Jörg Junhold defended the decision and explained that the behavior of Yushka, who came to Leipzig from Gossau in 2022 in Switzerland, was not unusual behavior in the animal world. Nevertheless, the averting from the young animals caused them to cool down and weaken. Veterinarian Andreas Bernhard and the Zoo management decided that a manual breeding is not appropriate to the species, as this could cause misprints.
Contradiction and legal steps
The animal welfare organization PETA has filed a criminal complaint against those responsible in the zoo in response to the incident. It calls for an examination of the legality of killing the tiger babies and a stop of the breeding programs for Siberian tigers in Leipzig. Animal rights activists argue that it often happens in nature that tiger mothers accept their own descendants and see the problem as a result of artificial breeding in captivity. Yushka was brought to Leipzig for species, which was based on recommendations of the European conservation breeding program.
The decision to continue to breed with Yushka is viewed critically by many. PETA points out that the zoo management ignores possible breeding problems. Younger reports show that several European zoos have come under pressure because of their practices. So the Nuremberg Zoo came under criticism after twelve couples were killed there for space constraints. In addition, the Aalborger Zoo caused outrage when he collected household funds for predator feeding.
Past and criticism
The incident is reminiscent of a similar scandal from 2023, at that time a healthy zebra stallion was slaughtered in the Leipzig zoo and its meat fed on lions. These decisions have triggered a lot of criticism in public and among animal rights activists and raise the question of whether Zoos are still viable as places in the preservation of species, or whether they are not subject to a suitable supervision.
It remains to be seen how the situation will develop and what consequences this will have for the previous breeding programs in the Leipzig Zoo. The animal welfare debate will certainly increase intensity in the coming days, since the clarification of the background of the incident has not yet been completed.