Nuremberg: Tiergarten wants to kill baboons. With 45 animals, the group had become too large and too inhomogeneous.
It was said that problems arise with the gene pool and social structures. The German Animal Welfare Association speaks of a “license to kill,” which it strictly rejects. The aim now is to promote the fact that it can also be sensible to kill individual specimens of species such as baboons, said Dag Encke, the zoo's director.