Those Bears Are Giving Sloth a Bad Name

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

"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.'"

Said Berelds, "He'd been slinging poo indescriminately all day. Frankly, it was just a matter of time before he hit the wrong carnivore.

"I wanted to kill him, myself. A little earlier on, he knocked my daughter's snowcone from her hands with one of his fecal fastballs. She cried like I've never seen her cry before -- so upset. He thought it was funny. He laughed and, then, he masturbated.

"Well, who's laughing now, Bobo, huh? Who's laughing now?"