Damned Dirty Apes
I stumbled across an article on Yahoo.com today that I feel I should share with all the people that read this blog, all two of them.
Your probably thinking, "Wow, what's this article about, Iraq, immigration, maybe oil prices?"
No, it's much more important than that. I've gone ahead and bold-faced what I feel to be the most important points of this article, points that I will comment on after you have read it.
Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors
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.
1) By chasing the monkey into an electric fence, do you think the bears were trying to cook it?
2) I wonder what caused the bears to break this fragile peace? I think it was some sort of complicated political disagreement between sloth bears and their natural enemy, the barbary macaque.
3) This was absolutely beautiful. Instead of keeping the spoils of war, this particular bear brought the monkey back home to be savored by all. Could a bear willing to share his kill really be capable of murder? I think it's a stitch up. And we all know who's behind it, the liberal (pro-macaque) media. What are your thougts?
P.S. Did you like the Polish Wookies from the previous post?
posted by Ryan McClune @ 11:00 AM
2 Comments:
First, I do like the Polish Wookies. They look ready for battle. Also, in response to the last post, "beef curtains" is a great phrase, and sexy too.
In response to this post, that is a great story. It's much more interesting than all the stupid ass political nonsense that has flooded the TV and internet over the past few days/weeks/years. I'm glad the bear was able to break the peace, and give a proper "up yours" to the jerk-off zoo owners who try to maintain a peaceful spectacle at the expense of the animal's feelings. Good for the bear, bad for the monkey.
Also, a song on the new Tool album (which you might not have heard) talks a lot about monkeys. It's called "Right in Two." It's really about people (the 'monkeys') killing each other, and an angel pissed off at God for giving us free will. I guess it kind of relates to the bear/monkey story. Check it out. Safe.
McClune-
What's the deal. I keep checking this thing, and no new posts. This is terrible. The time that's passed must mean that there is something really sweet in the works. Also, you need to listen to a song called 'Banshee Beat' by Animal Collective. It's weird, but really cool.
I was also wondering if you were willing to make an 'interesting trade' for your car. You give me your car, and I'll give you screen actor Anthony Quinn's undershirt. I swiped it from him when he took it off at the park.
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