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Bear eats monkey
Sun UK ^ | 5/15/06 | staff

Posted on 05/15/2006 10:51:20 AM PDT by 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.


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KEYWORDS: harsh; hatewhenthathappens
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Heck, that's better than watching the Nature Channel.
1 posted on 05/15/2006 10:51:22 AM PDT by pissant
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Last week in my backyard...I saw a Hawk attack a pidgeon and eat it alive....


2 posted on 05/15/2006 10:53:05 AM PDT by Fawn ('HOUSE' RULES)
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3 posted on 05/15/2006 10:54:03 AM PDT by b4its2late (If it's treason, there's no doubt a democrat is standing behind it.)
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To: Fawn

Cool. I saw a bald Eagle sitting in my tree a few years back chowing on a mallard duck.


4 posted on 05/15/2006 10:54:51 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Fawn
Last week in my backyard...I saw a Hawk attack a pidgeon and eat it alive....

One of my cats caught and devoured a lizard. The horror....

5 posted on 05/15/2006 10:55:16 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: b4its2late

LOL. Great pic.


6 posted on 05/15/2006 10:55:47 AM PDT by pissant
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My dog killed 2 baby possums.

Kinda sucks, they were eating the dogsh!t that I usually have to pick up.


7 posted on 05/15/2006 10:56:50 AM PDT by digger48
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To: The_Victor

The Robins have been terrorizing the worms in my yard for years!


8 posted on 05/15/2006 10:56:51 AM PDT by pissant
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I suppose we're left to figure out for ourselves what these animals were doing together in the same cage.


9 posted on 05/15/2006 10:57:20 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Casey Sheehan died so mommy could freely act the jackass)
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I watched one of my dogs dig up a mole today. She crunched it's bones up good and walked away.

Killin for the pleasure of killin.


10 posted on 05/15/2006 10:57:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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You can train your mutt to pick that, don't ya know!


11 posted on 05/15/2006 10:57:45 AM PDT by pissant
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12 posted on 05/15/2006 10:57:58 AM PDT by kingattax
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I thought it was a dog eat dog world... hmmm.


13 posted on 05/15/2006 10:58:53 AM PDT by YouPosting2Me
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I wonder if they would put a Gorilla and a bear together. That would make it more fair.


14 posted on 05/15/2006 10:58:53 AM PDT by pissant
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Yeah...it sure isn't like the Discovery channel when once the predator grabs the prey the scene quickly shifts away.

They say lions smother their prey before they rip it apart.

Uh-huh.

15 posted on 05/15/2006 10:59:14 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: cripplecreek

Kinda like my cat and the birds. If I could just get him to target the darn starlings.


16 posted on 05/15/2006 10:59:34 AM PDT by pissant
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Bear: "You throw poop at me! You throw poop on my WHOLE FAMILY!"


17 posted on 05/15/2006 11:00:38 AM PDT by YouPosting2Me
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"They say lions smother their prey before they rip it apart."

with kisses I'm sure :P


18 posted on 05/15/2006 11:00:49 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
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To: kingattax

That was one of the reasons I wanted all the libs to follow thru on their plans to move to Canada. Bear food.


19 posted on 05/15/2006 11:01:13 AM PDT by pissant
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Does this Dutch zoo hold these animal "ultimate fighting" competitions often?


20 posted on 05/15/2006 11:01:38 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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