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
The bears have been victims of racism, colonialism and discrimination for hundreds of years. The monkeys need to understand the bears, it's racism by the monkeys that "made" the bears eat them.
PS: See my tagline.
I bet the zookeepers were not giving the bears enough protein in their diets.
The bears took care of the situation.
Bears are smart.
The other day,
I met a bear,
Away up there,
A great big bear!
The other day I met a bear,
A great big bear a way up there!
He looked at me
I looked at him
He sized up me
I sized up him
He looked at me, I looked at him,
He sized up me, I sized up him.
He said to me
"Why don't you run?
I see you don't
Have any gun"
He said to me, "Why don't you run?
I see you don't have any gun."
And so I ran
Away from there
And right behind
Me was that bear
And so I ran away from there,
And right behind me was a that bear.
Ahead of me
I saw a tree
A great big tree
Oh, golly gee!
Ahead of me there was a tree,
A great big tree, oh, golly gee!
The lowest branch
Was ten feet up
I had to jump
And trust my luck
The lowest branch was ten feet up,
I had to jump and trust my luck.
And so I jumped
Into the air
And missed that branch
Away up there
And so I jumped into the air,
And missed that branch away up there.
Now don't you fret
And don't you frown
I caught that branch
On the way back down
Now don't you fret and don't you frown,
I caught that branch on the way back down.
That's all there is
There ain't no more
Until I meet
That bear once more
That's all there is, there ain't no more,
Until I meet that bear once more.
Phew!... From the title, I thought Mike Nesmith and Davey Jones wouldn't be able to do a reunion thing.
(ba-dum-bump)
Actually it was the monkey who went bearsh!t
Daaaa Bears! - "we're not here to fight or wrestle, we're just here to eat the monkey plate special."
I say the monkey was asking for it.
Well, at least we know what the bears will sh*t in the woods.
He got it alright. One day, swing in the trees taunting the bears. The next day, steaming pile of bear dung.
That's nature, baby!
LOL!
Is that like pronouncing Pea-body?
Some days yer the bear and other days yer the monkey!
What does a bear eat? Anything it wants to.
This bear evidently went through selection at Wafa Wafa.
The Circle of Life...
Your post reminds me of the Gary Larson cartoon with a group of lions in a circle eating an animal they killed, when one of the lions says, "Hey, Stanley, remember that time when we were around the kill and you said something so funny you made an antler come out of my nose?"
Well, the cartoon was funny...
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