"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."
Must be a slow news day. Is there anything all that unusual about this.
4 comments:
Nooooooooooooo!! Oh how sad.... and strangely fascinating, too.. Wow. makes you wonder.
What did they think was going to happen? It's a freaking bear!
I love animals- they are fascinating and while I might feel badly for the monkey I can't be upset. The bear is only following nature.
Too many years of watching Yogi and BooBoo got to these folks.
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