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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
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Odd. The catz have exactly the same plans for you...
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.
Kinda like some RINO politicians keep fantasizing they can make deals with 'Rats and trust the latter to keep their end of the bargain?
If they're that good, you should check to be sure they're not posting on FR.
Well, the cartoon was funny...
I remember that one!
Gary Larson is my very favorite!
"Lunch with the monkey, lunch with the monkey, lunch with the monkey, lunch with the monkey. ......monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey......"
catz
Let this episode serve as a warning to illegal aliens!
Was that monkey named Goldilocks?
LOL
That is EXACTLY what I was thinking LOL
Yes, that is the moral of the primitive philosophy known as the theory of evolution. Give that monkey a Darwin award.
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.)
I'm sorry a monkey had to die, but my knowledge of the animal kingdom has increased.
Ma-caque-a-nic basket to go
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!
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.
'Bushmeat's' fault?
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