Zoo to publicly dissect 1-old lion

A Danish zoo is planning to publicly dissect a year-old lion that it has killed to avoid inbreeding — a year after another Danish zoo triggered massive online protests for killing a healthy young giraffe, dissecting it and feeding it to lions in front of children. The Odense Zoo in central Denmark says the healthy young female lion was put down nine months ago because the zoo had too many felines. It said the animal, which has since been kept in a freezer, will be dissected Thursday to coincide with the schools’ fall break. Zookeeper Michael Wallberg Soerensen said the Odense Zoo, about 105 miles west of Copenhagen, has performed public dissections for 20 years. He says they are “not for entertainment” but are educational. The event has so far attracted several protests but has been mostly well received in Denmark, unlike the giraffe incident at the Copenhagen Zoo in February 2014.