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May 19, 2006

Bear eats monkey at zoo, Bon eats bear

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A bear killed and devoured a monkey at a Dutch zoo before horrified onlookers, who then became even more horrified to see Bon eating the bear.

The bear chased the monkey, a macaque, onto a wooden structure where it mauled the monkey to death. Shortly thereafter as the bear began to consume the macaque, Bon suddenly appeared and began to consume the bear.

"The habitats here in the safari park are arranged in such a way that one animal almost never kills another. And even more remote does a man leap out from seemingly nowhere and begin to eat an animal who is eating another animal," a statement read that was released by park officials. "But, after all, they are wild animals. And, of course...'Bon'.." the statement added, alluding to the fact that the zoo knew Bon, and that this type of incident may have happened before.

The park said it plans to move the monkeys to another part of the park, away from the black sloth bear, and to ban Bon from visiting the park altogether.

Posted by Phil at May 19, 2006 9:02 AM