Sunday, May 20, 2007

What is it with Dutch Zoos?

Last year visitors to Amsterdam's Beekse Bergen Safari park looked on in horror as sloth bears hunted down, slaughtered and ate a shrieking barbary macaque: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8HKETVO0&show_article=1

And now a Gorilla has escaped from the Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo* in Rotterdam: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273653,00.html

The non-proverbial 400lb gorrilla, Bokito, bit a woman, dragger her around and panicked visitors.

Can we make Dutch Zookeper coda for incompetent?

*An interesting note: the original AP story mentioned that the Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo is "one of the oldest in the Netherlands". I found that funny. It sounds like another one of those descriptions that's so heavily qualified as to have no meaning. I mean"one of the oldest" in a country smaller than West Virgini?

Turns out, according to this European Zoological Society - http://www.eaza.net/news/frameset_1news.html?page=1news_legbands - the Netherlands has 17 zoos. I guess being one of the oldest of 17 is noteworthy. I stand corrected.

And, for the record, West Virginia doesn't have any.

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