Cash-Strapped Bronx Zoo Lays Off Animals

[katty]

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Apr 24, 2009 5:39 pm US/Eastern
Cash-Strapped Bronx Zoo Lays Off Animals
by
JOSH LANDIS, CBS 2 News
NEW YORK (CBS) ―

For the two million people who visit the Bronx Zoo each year, the view is about to change.
A bunch of animals are getting fired!

If these animals could talk, they would have something to say, because their days at the zoo are numbered.

"We had decisions that needed to be made about old exhibits, and at the same time we needed to deal with the fiscal reality which is upon us," John Cavalli, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, says.

$15 million in budget cuts means the Bronx Zoo's Formosan deer, Arabian onyx, bats, porcupines and all the animals in the famed "World of Darkness" exhibit are going away.

"I think it's something the community, and the state, will be missing out on," zoo visitor Sue Waters says.

[frebrd]

1. Are "getting fired" and "going away" euphemisms for euthanasia?

Probably are.

:(