Animal on Animal Crime Goes Unchecked

At a Dutch Zoo, a bear viciously assaulted a monkey, then in what can only be a hate crime, dismembered the monkey and ate it. Police have yet to charge any animal in the crime.

Zookeepers are going to be fired over this. Somehow they got their critters mixed up. “You got Bear on my Monkey! You got Monkey on my Bear!”

From the AP here:

Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors

Mon May 15, 10:52 PM ET

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.”

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.

Monkey: Its what’s for dinner.