Posted on 09/23/2020 8:18:08 PM PDT by Rebelbase
A longtime Alaska Zoo resident alpaca named Caesar was killed Saturday night or Sunday morning by a wild brown bear that broke into the alpacas enclosure.
The bear tunneled under the zoos perimeter fence and broke through the cedar split rail fence around the enclosure before killing Caesar, according to the zoos executive director, Pat Lampi.
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The bear tunneled under the zoos perimeter fence and broke through the cedar split rail fence around the enclosure before killing Caesar, according to the zoos executive director, Pat Lampi.
Caesar was 16 and had been at the zoo for 15 years, Lampi said. He was popular with zoo visitors. He would walk up towards people and interact and sometimes spit on them if they upset him, but thats what members of the camel family do, he said.
This is one crazy story!
Year’s back at the near by university experimental farm they were raising sheep.
They brought a pure breed ram from France. Wasn’t long after a black bear broke into the barn went by all the other sheep and killed that ram.
The ram was replace by another of the same breed.
A bear broke in again and killed the 2nd ram.
The bear must of had a taste for French sheep.
And the Soros DA will probably release the damn thing on a few hundred dollars of bail, if that.
“Im guessing the bear had never seen an Alpaca, let alone smelled one. The bear thought , this stinky mountain goat is just asking for it.”
If only we could extend the Second Amendment into zoos, then the asshole bear would have gotten what he deserved from the Alpaca.
That Alpaca must have been taunting that bear something fierce.
Et tu, bruin?
(FTFY)
I’m guessing the alpaca didn’t have its pepper spray handy...
I understand Caesar said to his friends, “alpaca firearm” but I guess he never did. They were either sold out, or Caesar was too sheep.
Is Anchorage governed by ex-Californians?
It’s a big enough city that should seriously limit brown (Grizzly) bears from the environs. There’s millions of square miles in Alaska for grizzlies to roam. Keep them out of the City. Let people shoot them as nuisances when they even get to suburbia.
Next time, it will be someone’s kid, not a llama.
Iaoci sunt optimum in lingua latina quod nemo dicit illud.
Juan Valdez is devastated.
Who is going to play the bear in the Netflix made for TV movie?
But it may have been wearing a bell.
Or males
Animal breaking into zoo
Well, we know which one is faster.
I guess it really does pay to have a slower friend in bear country.
Poor Caesar!
I guess the moral of this story is never bring an Alpaca to a Bear fight. :(
Speaking of which: Bear Camp in northern Wisconsin is going well. They’ve harvested a half-dozen of medium to large Black Bear so far.
Two of our dogs got ‘swatted’ on one hunt, but no internal injuries and no stitches needed; just some drag marks from claws. (Bragging rights!) An application of penicillin and two days of rest and Taylor (Walker Dog) and Oneida (Plott) were ready to hit it again this morning.
‘My’ Plott Hound is doing really well. So proud of my boy. :)
Beau doesn’t have a tag this season; he got the biggest Black Bear in WI in 2016, so he and our dogs are ‘assists’ on other hunts. No exciting celebrities this year. In previous years they’ve hosted Wounded Warriors and two ill boys from Make-A-Wish, which amazed me that their dying wish would be to shoot a bear, but you only have one life, sometimes WAY too short, and they were obviously raised right. ;)
They've learned quickly to make it count.
Actually the bear broke in, the zoo needs to better protect their Alpaca. Zoos, today the animals are breaking in. Sometimes, Gaza and Paris in the Franco Prussian war, the humans eat them. Nazi officers went "hunting" with the animals in the Warsaw zoo.
Glad your dogs did well and are healthy, with storied to tell.
"A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these 'guests,' and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became 'The House Under a Crazy Star.'
Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story―sharing Antonina's life as, 'the zookeeper's wife,' while examining the disturbing obsessions at the core of Nazism."
I mean, not a PLEASANT subject, Man's Inhumanity To Man, but History worth preserving & sharing.
And, you know, Zoo-related. In remembrance of, now, Cesare and of course, Harambe. ;)
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