Hey, bears!!! Save those monkey brains for me!
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 monkey couldn't bear it, either!
I just snorted... accidentally inhaled a cat, and spewed cat and hard liquor all over my new laptop after reading your ping.
The cat is disoriented, I'm using the old laptop, my right nostril hurts, and YOU OWE ME A LAPTOP!
/johnny
Hey, bears!!! Save those monkey brains for me!
ISN'T THAT WHY YOU GO TO THE ZOO? so YOU CAN "SEE" nature close up. (sorry about the caps)
Monkey tartar.... mmmmmmmmmm...
Uh.. it's called nature.
Stay away from me, bears!!
And let me just add, I PAY TO SEE THAT!!!
And let me just add, I'D PAY TO SEE THAT!!!
It's the Netherlands. The bears got the munchies from second hand pot smoke.
Bears Eat Nagging, Pesky Little Monkey Ping
I am kinda new here, but it sounds kinda like a ZOT!
Prolly tried to distract the bear with bong water.
Someone please contact Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, the creator of the cranial screw top technique!!!
It makes you wonder just how slow a macaque monkey really is.
Pretty quick until it reaches the edge of the pen...
damn you life cycle....DAMN YOU FOR SCARING THE DUTCH!
bingo!
Well, I guess THIS should prove evolution of the species. Darwin was correct.
Oh yeah, you wanna come closer Mr Bear?!
I bet they don't forget to feed the bears from now on.
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