MARC BEKOFF: A baby Orangutan was killed—not euthanized—at the Basel Zoo after her mother, Revital, died. This is a case of “zoothanasia” as I call it, because killing the baby was not done as a mercy killing because she was suffering from interminable pain or from an incurable disease—she wasn’t. The zoo decided the baby … Continue reading ‘Zoothanasia’: Four-day-old baby orangutan needlessly killed at Basel Zoo