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◎張沛元

A Danish zoo is planning to publicly dissect a year-old lion -- a year after another park’s decision to dissect and skin a giraffe and feed it to lions triggered massive online protests, a zookeeper said Saturday, adding the purpose of it was to give people "a closer to the animals experience."

就在一座丹麥動物園決定解剖一隻長頸鹿，並將其去皮給獅子當飼料吃，進而引爆大規模網路抗議的1年後，丹麥另一家動物園的園長週六表示，他們打算公開解剖一頭1歲大的獅子，還說其目的是要提供民眾「近距離的動物經驗」。

The Odense zoo in central Denmark says the 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.

丹麥中部的奧登斯動物園表示，這頭母獅在9個月前因園內獅子數量過多而遭安樂死，其屍體此後就被保存在冰櫃裡，將配合學校的秋日假期於週四進行解剖。

The event has so far attracted several protests but has been mostly well received in Denmark, unlike similar plans at the Copenhagen Zoo in February 2014. That zoo faced international protests after a healthy 2-year-old giraffe named Marius, also put down to prevent inbreeding, was dissected in front of a crowd that included children and then fed to lions.（AP）

此事迄今雖招致若干抗議，但基本上廣獲丹麥民眾接納，與2014年2月哥本哈根動物園的類似計畫迥然有別。哥本哈根動物園當時為避免近親交配，人道毀滅了一隻名叫「馬里奧斯」的2歲健康長頸鹿，並在包括小孩在內的群眾面前肢解其屍體，然後餵給獅子吃，因此遭到國際抗議。（美聯社）

新聞辭典

put down：慣用語，殺動物，特別指因病或受痛苦而將其安樂死的馴養動物。例句：She wouldn’t let her vet put her dog down when it became too ill.（她的愛犬重病時，她也不讓獸醫把牠安樂死。）

coincide with something：慣用語，與…一致。例句：My birthday sometimes coincides with Chinese New Year.（我的生日有時候跟農曆春節是同一天。）

so far：慣用語，迄今，截至目前為止。

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