CAN giraffes commit suicide? The Giza zoo found itself facing that unusual question in 2013, when a baby giraffe called Roqa reportedly took its own life after being harassed by visitors. Officials denied the story, claiming that Roqa inadvertently hanged herself after getting tangled in wire. Still, the state of Egyptian zoos is such that reports of suicidal ungulates do not seem too far-fetched.
Shortly before Roqa died, three bears were killed at the same zoo in what officials called an ursine “riot”. It was later discovered that the bears had been sedated by keepers and had fallen to their deaths. At Alexandria’s zoo, two men entered the monkey enclosure in 2015 and beat the animals with sticks, as a crowd of onlookers laughed. The men then ate the monkeys’ bananas and left.
Such stories abound, but much of the bad press is nonsense, says Hamed Abdul Dayem, a spokesman for the ministry of agriculture, which oversees the zoos. He claims that they have improved their...Continue reading
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