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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


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KEYWORDS: bear; bearattack; bears; friedmonkeybrains; monkeytime; mothernatureuidoits; stuned; yummy; zoo
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
"I can't bear this . . . it's unbearable."

Quit monkeying around!

21 posted on 05/15/2006 7:10:54 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Charlespg

No Timothy Treadmill to snack on?


22 posted on 05/15/2006 7:11:15 PM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 83-87)
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To: Charlespg
A shot of the culprits pursuing their hapless victim.


23 posted on 05/15/2006 7:11:33 PM PDT by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: BP2
Like Rush says, "A tiger is a tiger," or bear in this case.

With an exception for Bubba the Alligator.
24 posted on 05/15/2006 7:12:07 PM PDT by microgood
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To: Charlespg
Barbary macaque

Tar-tar, none the less... Tres gauche!

As a culinary professional, I must protest.

But if there was a good sauce... warm monkey meat ain't bad....

/johnny

25 posted on 05/15/2006 7:12:57 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
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To: Alouette
No Timothy Treadmill to snack on?

It's Timothy "Snackwell" :)
26 posted on 05/15/2006 7:13:29 PM PDT by hypocritter
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To: DannyTN

I will not bear witness to this kid of thread.


27 posted on 05/15/2006 7:13:54 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 ("Conspiracy theories are the products of feeble minds." - A. Horvet)
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To: Charlespg
Does a bear "Cheetah" in the woods?
28 posted on 05/15/2006 7:14:06 PM PDT by tophat9000 (If it was illegal French Canadians would La Raza back them? Racist back there race over country)
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To: Flyer; humblegunner; Allegra; TheMom; Xenalyte; thackney; Eaker; stevie_d_64; TXBSAFH; ...

Bears Eat Nagging, Pesky Little Monkey Ping


29 posted on 05/15/2006 7:14:15 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum
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To: Cicero
Oh, good, I couldn't get the link to the pics to work.

I knew Free Republic would come through.

Thank you.
30 posted on 05/15/2006 7:15:04 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: Charlespg

You mean bears are actually capable of eating other animals. Maybe so, but I think it must have been something the zoo did to make the bears act like that.


31 posted on 05/15/2006 7:15:29 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Charlespg

Bears are smart.


32 posted on 05/15/2006 7:15:53 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: djf
without horseradish?

See? It's always about the sauce. I could feed roadkill 5 days a week with a good (appropriate) sauce, and get repeat customers.

/johnny

33 posted on 05/15/2006 7:15:56 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
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To: gondramB

(NOTE: Sloth Bear ~ a name given to a type of bear. It is not a sloth.)


34 posted on 05/15/2006 7:16:29 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: Charlespg

Damn,so the monkeys won't have a chance to evolve into humans now!


35 posted on 05/15/2006 7:16:40 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

It's too late,
the bears went ape.


36 posted on 05/15/2006 7:17:00 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: gondramB

Apparently they were originally considered sloths but have been reclassified as bears, hence the combined name.


37 posted on 05/15/2006 7:17:29 PM PDT by skr (We cannot play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.-- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Revolting cat!
"Damn,so the monkeys won't have a chance to evolve into humans now!"

Yes, but you are what you eat, so sloths are now future people.

Wait...the future is now?!

38 posted on 05/15/2006 7:18:08 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Charlespg

Now that's entertainment!


39 posted on 05/15/2006 7:18:13 PM PDT by Zman516 ("Allah" is Satan, actually.)
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To: gondramB

If it could catch a monkey, it could catch you.


40 posted on 05/15/2006 7:18:32 PM PDT by Ditter
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