Bears Eat Monkey In Front Of Zoo Visitors
Bears ate a monkey in front of the visitors at the zoo in south Netherlands. As the zoo is so-called safari park, they lived together.
Not like most human beings, I do not like animals (except human beings, um, maybe with some human beings,,,) since I can not communicate with them by language nor by emotions. So, I try not to see animals whenever possible. In fact, the reason why I do not like animals is that I was bitten my bottom by a dog when I was 3 years old. In fact, the dog bit it because I hit it. Since then, I made an agreement with animals that both parties do not invade each other. So, neither do I love them, not do I hate them. I just do not like them.
In this regard, I hate human beings make zoos to put animals in small places and show them FOR human beings. If the monkey had not lived together with bears, it might never have been killed with such a reason.
I wonder if some human beings should be put in a cage with some animals to be shown for other animals… I recommend the best person living in a white building in the USA…
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May 16, 2006 9:24 am US/Pacific
Bears Eat Monkey In Front Of Zoo Visitors
(AP) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands 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.
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