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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Creepy cats, old New Order, and a woman having the worst time ever on Splash Mountain win the internet this week.

Gaza Zoo Animals

Animals from ‘world’s worst’ zoo find a new home

Culture
Shabani

Hey girl, ‘too handsome’ gorilla is making many Japanese hearts flutter

Culture
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011. Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.

This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo

Conflict & Justice
Alina Simone's father, Alexander Vilenkin, at the Kharkov Zoo in 2011. Vilenkin worked there as a night watchman after he was blacklisted by the KGB in Soviet Ukraine.

This Soviet-born émigré remembers working at the Kharkov zoo

Conflict & Justice
Marius the giraffe is pictured in Copenhagen Zoo February 7, 2014.

Here’s the story of a baby giraffe fed to lions at the Copenhagen Zoo

Environment

People around the world are up in arms about the way Danish zoo officials killed a healthy giraffe and fed it to the lions. But the zoo is defending its decision as a way of protecting the giraffe population from inbreeding.