May 16, 2006
"No my friend, we must not interfere."
Posted by pete at May 16, 2006 8:09 AM"For it is nature's way."
Bears killed and devoured a monkey in front of horrified visitors at a Dutch zoo, officials and witnesses said.
Visitors reported that the grisly scene began as several bears chased the monkey, a macaque, onto a wooden structure at Beekse Bergen Safari Park.
They said a bear tried unsuccessfully to shake the monkey loose, ignoring attempts by keepers to distract it. The bear then climbed up and grabbed the monkey, mauling it to death and bringing it to its concrete den, where three bears ate it.
Heh..."three bears." If I'd been there, I like to think I would've yelled "Run, Goldilocks, run!" as the terrified monkey raced around the enclosure.
The park confirmed the killing. "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 in a statement.
"See you next time on Untamed World."
Oh no! Save the Blind Cave Ren! I theenk I'm going to be seeck!
Visitors to the Beekske Bergen Safari Park outside of Amsterdam may or may not have been hallucinating this weekend, but dozens were around to witness a Barbary macaque monkey being slaughtered and devoured by Sloth bears. Here’s a .pdf photoessa......
| --Posted to Everything Between on May 16, 2006 12:33 PM:. |
Perhaps now Spot the Leopard will reconsider if he really does them to 'Put Me In The Zoo.'
This was my favorite line: ignoring attempts by keepers to distract it Bird in the hand, and all that...