Bear eats monkey

Sun UK ^ | 5/15/06 | staff

[pissant]

BEARS killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors.

Several Sloth bears chased the Barbary macaque into an electric fence, where it was stunned. It recovered and fled onto a wooden structure, where one bear pursued and mauled it to death.

Witness Marco Berelds posted a detailed report on the incident, including photos, on a Dutch Web site. He said one Sloth bear tried unsuccessfully to shake the monkey loose after it took refuge on the structure, built of crossing horizontal and vertical poles.

Ignoring attempts by keepers to distract it, the bear climbed onto a horizontal pole, and, standing stretched on two legs, “used its sharp canines to pull the macaque, which was shrieking and resisting, from its perch.”

The bear then brought the animal to a concrete den, where three bears ate it.

[Fawn]

I never knew Birds ate birds. Does your cat eat cats too?

[The_Victor]

I never knew Birds ate birds. Does your cat eat cats too?

Peregrine falcons eat almost exclusively other birds, and there very fond of pigeons too. But no, my cats don't eat other cats, but I'll bet a Bobcat or a Cougar would find my cats tasty.

BTW, I wasn't making fun of your statement, I was joining in (or so I thought) at the collective and sarcastic shock and horror that animals eat each other. :)

[jonascord]

Birds eating birds is the whole idea behind Falconry. The hawk is trained to bring down the first large bird it sees after the hood comes off. That part is easy. The hard part is convincing the hawk to return after it kills. Usually takes several months of constant work to teach the hawk's 2 watt brain that the only food it will get is from the big smelly ape holding the leash...