May 16, 2006

Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors - Now that's what I call a show! Warning: link contains a picture of a bear swatting a full grown barbary ape like a piñata.

Several bears at a Dutch Zoo, actually more a large holiday & safari park, caught a trespassing macaque, played with it a bit as it desperately tried to escape, then ate it, with everybody watching. Here is a PDF file with description in Dutch & more grisly pictures of the sort of thing people used to pay to see back in the 1600s at the Tower of London.

posted by Chyren 18 years ago
  • Dang. That's impressive!
  • That's pretty nasty. It reminds me of a David Attenborough wildlife show where a group of chimps chased, caught, killed and ate a small monkey. That was really nasty, what with the anthropomorphism and all.
  • Not to eat Fish or Flesh; that is the Law. Are we not men?
  • Bound to happen sooner or later. Although I'd pay money to see the bears take on the 'grate apes' mentioned.
  • monkey snuff
  • No, Stan. We are Devo.
  • Ape shall not kill ape! Ape shall kill monkey, bear shall kill monkey, and pretty much everything else goes. Have fun!
  • That monkey had it coming. He'd been mouthing off to them bears all day.
  • 'Get your paws off me you damned dirty.....bear.'
  • D-E-V-O.
  • "The zoo said it "usually wasn't possible" for keepers to intervene when an animal killed another. Them being scared shitless at the time. Shoulda sent Jim in. Any time there's a fight between a bear and a Barbary Ape, or a Lynx and a Marlin, or a Tiger and a Manta Ray -- Jim's your man.
  • It's a movement to this monkey that really gets my goat!
  • I totally hate being eaten by bears.
  • Yes, it sucks. Being eaten by Sylvia Saint, though, that's ok.
  • Where was Steve Irwin?
  • Hopefully nowhere near a camera or major broadcasting equipment, Skrik.
  • 'tis the height of uncouth -- don't ye know? -- to place your dining partner in your mouth and chew him so
  • Ah yes- Jim. I remember seeing a Mutual of Omaha send-up once that went along the lines of, "While Marlon waits in the tent with the Daquiris and the native girls, Jim will sneak up on the Grizzlies and attempt to deploy the rectal probe..." It was probably a Johhny Carson routine. And it probably WASN'T a rectal probe. But you get the idea. Also- >>"The zoo said it "usually wasn't possible" for keepers to intervene when an animal killed another. Yeah, for same reason that it wasn't possible for the monkey to intervene on its own behalf: there's pretty much Jack Pasquatti you can do about what a bear eats, unless you are a larger bear... Hell, you try and get a chicken bone away from my mom's eight-pound Bichon Frise, and you take your life in your hands...
  • I remember an interview with Jim years after the show had ended. He was spilling the beans about the whole thing, how all these improbable fights were (*gasp*) faked. There was one story about a Python or Boa Constrictor or some other big snake, and they were trying to get it to fight a Gazelle or something, and the snake wasn't co-operating. So they threaded some fishwire up the snake's ass and out its mouth, so they could pull the snake along the ground from in the chopper. Where was PETA when Marlon was alive, huh? Sheez...
  • Next week they should put on an animal's murder trial. Owls can be lawyers. Parrot can be clerk of the court. Bereaved monkeys can bear witness, while various other creatures can be the jury. & the Lion can be the judge! Think of the darling little costumes & wigs! Oh, what fun!
  • Kangaroo court?
  • Veronica Corningstone: [in bear pit] In case we die here today, there's something that you should know. That dirty trick with the Teleprompter. It wasn't... Ron Burgundy: Sweet Eli Whitney's nose! It wasn't you, was it? It was Wes Mantooth. Oh, I should have known. Veronica Corningstone: No, no. No, I did it. Ron Burgundy: [screams] You bitch! [bears wake up] Ron Burgundy: You woke up the bears! Why did you do that?
  • We were all that monkey
  • Beekse Bergen Safari Park. Should be more like Berzerk Bear Safari Park.
  • Wow! there are so many messages in that picture, from "we are meat animals" to "SOMEONE PICK UP THAT CHILD NOW AND JUST MAKE IT OK!"
  • The child survived, the photographer did not.
  • retank do you know the photographer's name for that photo? thanks
  • http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/ultimate_in_unfair.htm
  • Kevin Carter,, I'm so use to FF linkification, I always forget to html my links. Kevin Carter
  • thanks!
  • Um, I just like to mention to any concerned monkeys that we don't usually eat monkeys--just Dutch zoo food is really, really bad.
  • But putting mayo on chips is pure genius...
  • And somebody educated the Hollanders about the Imperial system. Please.