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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: Big Guy and Rusty 99

The monkey couldn't bear it, either!


41 posted on 05/15/2006 7:19:29 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: pax_et_bonum
Bears Eat Nagging, Pesky Little Monkey

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

42 posted on 05/15/2006 7:19:46 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: Charlespg

Hey, bears!!! Save those monkey brains for me!

43 posted on 05/15/2006 7:20:21 PM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: Charlespg
in front of horrified visitors

ISN'T THAT WHY YOU GO TO THE ZOO? so YOU CAN "SEE" nature close up. (sorry about the caps)

44 posted on 05/15/2006 7:21:07 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Charlespg

Monkey tartar.... mmmmmmmmmm...


45 posted on 05/15/2006 7:21:58 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Charlespg
""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."

Uh.. it's called nature.

46 posted on 05/15/2006 7:22:47 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: Charlespg

Stay away from me, bears!!

47 posted on 05/15/2006 7:23:26 PM PDT by JRios1968 (In memoriam...)
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To: Charlespg

And let me just add, I PAY TO SEE THAT!!!


48 posted on 05/15/2006 7:23:32 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Charlespg

And let me just add, I'D PAY TO SEE THAT!!!


49 posted on 05/15/2006 7:23:41 PM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Charlespg
" the harmony was temporarily disturbed "

It's the Netherlands. The bears got the munchies from second hand pot smoke.

50 posted on 05/15/2006 7:27:04 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: pax_et_bonum

Bears Eat Nagging, Pesky Little Monkey Ping

I am kinda new here, but it sounds kinda like a ZOT!


51 posted on 05/15/2006 7:28:36 PM PDT by ThomasThomas
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To: spunkets

Prolly tried to distract the bear with bong water.


52 posted on 05/15/2006 7:28:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Charlespg

Someone please contact Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, the creator of the cranial screw top technique!!!


53 posted on 05/15/2006 7:29:10 PM PDT by Benrand
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To: gondramB

It makes you wonder just how slow a macaque monkey really is.


54 posted on 05/15/2006 7:29:43 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (My Pug is On Her War Footing)
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To: K4Harty

Pretty quick until it reaches the edge of the pen...


55 posted on 05/15/2006 7:30:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: Charlespg

damn you life cycle....DAMN YOU FOR SCARING THE DUTCH!


56 posted on 05/15/2006 7:30:10 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Perdogg

bingo!


57 posted on 05/15/2006 7:30:34 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Charlespg

Well, I guess THIS should prove evolution of the species. Darwin was correct.


58 posted on 05/15/2006 7:31:24 PM PDT by HighWheeler ("Detente. Isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey until Thanksgiving Day?" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Charlespg

Oh yeah, you wanna come closer Mr Bear?!


59 posted on 05/15/2006 7:31:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Charlespg; Squantos; elkfersupper; vetvetdoug; Dog Gone

I bet they don't forget to feed the bears from now on.


60 posted on 05/15/2006 7:31:47 PM PDT by razorback-bert (Kooks For Kinky)
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