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Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors
ABC NEWS ^
| May 15, 2006
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
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bear; bearattack; bears; friedmonkeybrains; monkeytime; mothernatureuidoits; stuned; yummy; zoo
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To: BP2
Dat tiger din't go CRAZY...
Dat tiger went TIGER!!! -Chris Rock
To: Darksheare
142
posted on
05/16/2006 8:50:55 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Islam wasn't hijacked on 9/11. It was exposed.)
To: JRandomFreeper
But I've got catz to throw at any carnivore lurking around. And good, tasty catz they are.... Catz first, then me. That's the order. Odd. The catz have exactly the same plans for you...
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:55:48 AM PDT
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null and void
(Islam wasn't hijacked on 9/11. It was exposed.)
To: VeniVidiVici
I don't know if you've been watching the weather reports from these parts, but lately we pronounce "Peabody" as "Lake pee-BID-dy", accent on the second sylable.
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posted on
05/16/2006 12:39:56 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: BooksForTheRight.com
Fantasizing and idealizing these wild animals doesn't change them into Bambi, Kinda like some RINO politicians keep fantasizing they can make deals with 'Rats and trust the latter to keep their end of the bargain?
To: JRandomFreeper
I laughed my @$$ off at your ping. The catz went nutz, they thought I was dying. I had to keep them from dialing 911. If they're that good, you should check to be sure they're not posting on FR.
To: NCLaw441
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...
I remember that one!
Gary Larson is my very favorite!
To: Charlespg; Fast Ed97; Flavius Josephus; GreatOne; highimpact; JRios1968; Leto; Moose4; Mr. Mojo; ...
Jim Rome ping
FReepmail me to get on or off this Jim Rome pinglist....
"Have a take, don't suck or you'll get run......."
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posted on
05/16/2006 7:50:13 PM PDT
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MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq - Woohoo!! I'm on A List!!! yay!!!!)
To: MikefromOhio
To quote John in C-Town:
"Lunch with the monkey, lunch with the monkey, lunch with the monkey, lunch with the monkey. ......monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey......"
To: pax_et_bonum
How would he know. He has a couple of beers and falls asleep in the office chair every night....
catz
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:00:58 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
To: Charlespg
Let this episode serve as a warning to illegal aliens!
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:02:47 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Charlespg
"The bear then brought the animal to a concrete den, where three bears ate it." Was that monkey named Goldilocks?
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:09:37 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: Mr. Mojo
LOL
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking LOL
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:12:16 PM PDT
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MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq - Woohoo!! I'm on A List!!! yay!!!!)
To: gondramB
"I think if I let a "sloth" bear catch me then I really deserve to be eaten..." Yes, that is the moral of the primitive philosophy known as the theory of evolution. Give that monkey a Darwin award.
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05/16/2006 8:13:16 PM PDT
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editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: Charlespg
Me, I can't wait for the Dan Brown/Opie version of this story.
I bet that in it the monkey marries Mary Magdalene, they have a daughter and the Pope suppresses the real story! (That's the Reader's Digest synopsis, anyway.)
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:16:45 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Charlespg
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.I'm sorry a monkey had to die, but my knowledge of the animal kingdom has increased.
To: Charlespg
Ma-caque-a-nic basket to go
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:32:01 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Not a part of virtual reality)
To: Charlespg
Actually, after a visit to one of the Korean restaurants around here I wouldn't bet a dollar that I hadn't just eaten an ethnic monkey meat delicacy. Anyway, whatever the source, it's invariably delicious, attractively presented, and it usually tastes like chicken!
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:37:37 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: corkoman
Macaques are mean nasty biting screaming beasts of misery. I know why those bears ate it - to shut it up. Worked!Hey, it's a two-fer! Peace and quiet and a hot lunch!
The visitors are nitwits to not realize that bears are carnivores and predators, good of the bears to give them a refresher course in nature.
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:43:37 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Charlespg
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posted on
05/16/2006 8:45:28 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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