Sloth Bears kill and eat Barbary Macaque at Dutch Zoo:
Those bears should be put down. They’re dangerous!
I see the headline at CNN reports the zoo visitors were shocked. What do they expect from bears? Eating other animals is their job!
Who can blame him, really?
“Uh-oh, Yogi. Mr. Ranger isn’t gonna like this!”
What more needs to happen before people start taking the threat of bears seriously???
…I can’t leave this alone.
This was in Amsterdam? Well, the bear probably got a freaky bad case of the munchies and, well, this monkey was staring at him!
Bears & Macaques do mix, just internally.
How shocking. Someone goes to a zoo and witnesses nature in action. There outta be a law…
Here is a PDF!!! link from the bottom of the yahoo story with some good pictures.
Normally, pdf’s seem to junk my machine, but this one was fine.
…and a hale and hearty Welcome Back from your posting hiatus, Senor Montoya.
My first thought when reading this thread title was a sarcastic “Well, duh…”
My second though was “What has CalMeacham been doing to learn this lesson?”
Bears are not your friend. Not even if you’re a monkey.
Serious question: what kind of zoo is this? How long have they kept these bears and these monkeys together?
I mean, sloth bears are Indian animals, while “barbary apes” are from North Africa. I can’t imagine why they’d have been kept together in the first place, since they’d never meet (much less interact) in the wild.
From the little I know of sloth bears, they’re not usually very aggressive. Like American black bears, they’re usually more inclined to eat berries, grubs and termites than to hunt for larger prey. But the fact remains, like all bears, they’re opportunistic predators. Even an amateur zookeeper should know better than to put them in the same area as animals they might perceive as food. American black bears aren’t generally fierce or violent, but I’d never put them in an enclosed area with smaller mammals, because I’d fear exactly what happened in the Netherlands. How could PROFESSIONALS (ostensibly) not foresee what an amateur could easily envision?
Just how long were the bears and the monkeys kept in the same area? If it’s been a long time, I’m astonished something like this hasn’t happened sooner.
When I went on safari in Nepal, the rangers, while pretty terrified of the tigers, were mostly scared of the sloth bears. Rapacious little buggers.
But am I alone in this thread in feeling sorry for the poor little minky? He looks so scared in the water. 
“Hungry bear powers, macaque-tivate!”
/got nothin’
Serious Answer:
heh…almost never. But really, this is nothing compared to the carnage seen recently in their Timber Wolf/Domestic Housecat exhibit.
I felt sorry for him too. Poor guy.
I dunno, around here the macaques (different type, obviously) are nasty, destructive little pests. I was rooting for the bear.
Their big mistake was putting the lion sanctuary in the same enclosure as the crippled wildebeast recovery unit.