Posted on 05/15/2006 7:04:16 PM PDT by Charlespg
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands May 15, 2006 (AP)— Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the zoo said Monday. In the incident Sunday at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park, 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.
The park confirmed the killing in a statement, saying: "In an area where Sloth bears, great apes and Barbary macaques have coexisted peacefully for a long time, the harmony was temporarily disturbed during opening hours on Sunday."
"Of course the habitats here in the safari park are arranged in such a way that one animal almost never kills another, but they are and remain wild animals," it said.
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.
The zoo said it "usually wasn't possible" for keepers to intervene when an animal killed another.
The park plans now to move the Barbary macaques which are large monkeys but often inaccurately called "Barbary Apes" to another part of the park, it said.
On the Net:
http://www.advergraphics.nl/beeksebergen/Beer vs Aap.pdf
LOL!!!!!!!!!
Both genera, as well as Felis and some others, are believed to have evolved from a single critter called a Miacis.
"Yogi... Mr. Ranger isn't gonna like this..."
Looks like they need to up the rations for these bears.
Lifelike safari in Beekse mounts dancing bear devours monkey Beekse mounts - Sunday 14 May 2006 what kind of ounce and the children, Mara (5) and Elle (1.5), adventurous dagje from had become became, however, an extraordinarily tense perception after a horrible gebrul of omstanders at the Lippenberen. Zojuist we had passed these 3 beautiful dansberen, because for that these type in parts of Europe and Asia becomes still abuses, but at such a kreet photograph journalist blood starts crawl. After a short sprint with digital camera in the attack I eye of panic was at the omstanders whom had look on how the Lippenberen bite a bear macaque present in the largely set up outside stay "legally" spelenderwijs with and beat maltreated.
Under loud clamour and din by it being been scared publicly roar to understand given the poor monkey with rests to leave. The bear macaque small in proportion in panic by fright wire the gracht has jumped in but in the accompanied going fall of wire has gone with. Violently shocking state the macaque to its shoulders in water whereas the volt hunts by him gone. A terrifying schouwspel against which most of the parents protect their children. Roar lijken stand look on them the monkey clearly to want on a small distance and with a combination of bladders and spit make that it is its own debt. "then you had but must remain on your own country!", lijken want say them in the eyes of our people.
Whereas the Lippenberen drip down slowly the macaque recovers strength and courage on the side where to clamber he falls after some meters in each other, dead according to many witnesses. Roar have of course done it, and already fast an arsenal becomes to to catch, stones and even street clinkers carried. "gooi which bear dead!", a young in The Hague puber calls on which its father, of which also the aware first hulpkreet arrived, indicates its zoon. Under others be informed mother has brought horecamedewerkers of the park in all haste of what occurs there but she has no term for for a long time which nothing seems there happen. Get mainly its verbal response then and the fact that roar eye for the victim suffers to an anger attack of some people present who take up the collected ammunition and still use roar to keep out.
The diet of the lip bear exists mainly from termites, fiddles and fruit. Easily termite hillocks or anthills to be able the lip bear has to burst very large nails to the voorpoten. Moreover he has a very mobile tongue. He blows very hard in the termite hillock or the anthill, as a result of which large clouds with termites fiddle or in around flying. The long tongue does the rest. In nature bear macaques without problems in the same surroundings live. Reason why the Beekse mounts the macaques have made it possibly by drawing whereas the Lippenberen outside stay, they can withdraw always in for to roar inaccessible made area. But yes, that is the theory to fast will appear.
Whereas the attendant pulse altitude comes take the most witnesses again has left for lack of action and in the assumption that the monkey has laid the loodje, but nothing is less true. Provocatively slow and cautiously the monkey cup comes above the maaiveld from on which the attendant direct decision roars to get in. As from the overzijde behind a hillock they are lured with apples as a result of which the monkey is hidden himself from view. These see vervolgens heavily started but at first sight especially shocked (forgive me the woordspeling) chance small thirty meters of strolling and itself in houten piles construction above the ground four meters to hoist. There does applause because now he is in security, sound roars, nevertheless can't papa can't climb? I confirm my for the this but have been not entirely rested on what I see now. I ask will look at Mara just as with mummy to the other animals.
Roar return. Obviously it has not succeeded the attendants get in them to. Whereas the attendant takes care there on that the dansberen from the buurt of the macaque remain by with apples them other lure direction appears that particularly one of roar has been not yet finished, with desastreuze impact. Whereas everyone is there of convinced that the macaque is safe starts this push and draw brute against the piles. Because the this desired impact does not prove to be clambers have the bear, without respect for us aller conviction that do not roar climbs, with its long claws the piles in. The attendant its kruit has shot and him rest only still the large blue bucket in which sat throw the apples to the bear which roars by the other two immediately is grabbed. Meanwhile on altitude lip bear come the loudly shrieking and struggling macaque of its voetstuk jerks with its sharp canines. He can seconden still 20 live before he becomes bear in a dishonourable manner kapotgeschud, twisted by the thole pin. The bear dives vervolgens with booty betonnen a hol in, the attendant and our completely disconcerted leaving behind. The two other roar rennen as had the hol and raise with gegraaf a substance curtain as a result of which which takes place within mainly invisibly remains.
The been scared attendant gives absolute nothing else to that he could do then what he until then had done without running with the raging bear come into contact himself had danger. "today it was the first time that happened", he sees this nervously on whereupon he immediately clarifies; Not that it is for today the first time, this has been never rather prevented according to me. We believes him natural, differently was there probable no more bear macaque find in the safari park. Been scared mark I that my sucker no interview has given a another animal to the request with mummy will examine. On afstandje she has seen what happened and sees with a scrap in its throat and waters in the eyes on that them the héél pitiful finds that litte monkey. Such as Harm Edens regularly dry notices in its tv-programma this was the Nieuws:"Gelukkig have we the photograph still!. But or I of it now héél fortunately become..
Text & fotografie © Marco Barelds
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Sloth vs. Sloth Bear
We all learned something today.
lololol
>>We all learned something today.<<
Aha.... suddenly everything is clear. Thanks for that.
>>
In Columbia a boy was trying to sell a young sloth.
It was in a tree branch, I wanted to touch the fur and it swung a 3 toed paw with about 2 inch claws.
They may move slow but they can swing their paws very fast.<<
interesting... I'm learning in this thread.
>>If it could catch a monkey, it could catch you.<<
An excellent point.
>>Apparently they were originally considered sloths but have been reclassified as bears, hence the combined name.<<
Aha... thank you. Seeing the picture now, I understand why.
What, you'd prefer they did it behind their backs???!?
Why can't we all just get along?
That's what happens in nature. And the bears would kill humans too. Fantasizing and idealizing these wild animals doesn't change them into Bambi, Thumper and Teddy.
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