TOUGH love practised by the Newquay Zoo in Cornwall.
Two Sulawesi monkeys have caused a problem by repeatedly fighting.
(At moment it's not entirely clear if it was with each other or they nipped round to the meerkat pen - they always look soft to me - to dish out a bit of monkey madness.)
So the Zoo put them down. Simple as that. A couple of lethal injections and it's problem solved.
Couldn't they have spoken to their parents, threatened them with an ASBO (Ape Social Behaviour Order) or ultimately issued an electronic tag?
As a plan you have to say it is pretty effective.
But given that there are only 100,000 Sulawesi monkeys in existence, it's not the most forward looking of solutions in a long term ecological context.
However in the binge drinking world, there must be at least two million humans (or at least I believe they're human) up for a fight on Friday night.
And that's plenty of room for manouevre
Gonzales wrote...
At last some common sense!
Let the monkeys roam the streets rather than these ASBO wasters.
Lethal injections all round.
Posted by: Gonzales | November 29, 2007 5:57 PM