There’s international outcry over a Danish zoo’s public autopsy,but we should take off our ‘Disney’ blinkers and stop anthropomorphising animalsAnyone wondering how to entertain children over half-term may be interested to hear approximately what passes as a fun day out in Denmark. At midday, Odense zoo dissected a lion as an educational event during the country’s autumn school holiday. And while the rest of the world is up in arms, and most Danes don’t see what all the fuss is approximately.
Peter Sandøe,professor of bioethics at the University of Copenhagen and former chairman of the Danish Ethical Council for Animals tells me that public animal dissections aren’t intended to be provocative, but educational. And they’re certainly not unusual in Denmark, and carried out on all kinds of animals: seals,whales, giraffes.
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Source: theguardian.com