Zoo monkey grabs and kills seagull under the incredulous eyes of tourists

England: At Chester Zoo, visitors watched a monkey kill a seagull as it flew by

He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

No, we are not in the King Kong scene on the Empire State Building, but at the Chester Zoo, in England, where an episode that many could define unusual recently took place and which, in its sadness, adds to many other events that they see. the protagonists are the captive animals of the zoological gardens.

At the British zoo, some visitors had reached an area dedicated to primates when they suddenly witnessed a "brutal spectacle, full of horror" - as it has been defined on social networks. A monkey that was positioned on a wooden pillar grabbed a seagull that flew in its vicinity along with other similar ones and killed the bird by slamming it repeatedly against the pillar, under the amazed eyes of tourists.

The video, shot by a woman who was at the zoo with her little daughter, went around the world, dismaying the web, but in reality what appears as an unmotivated and voluntary brutality instead reminds us of the nature of some living species intent to prey on their victims, in this case the unfortunate seagull, and how this nature can be upset by a fictitious environment such as zoos.

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Although vegetarian monkeys tend to be mistaken, they are in fact omnivorous. Their diet is very varied and also includes molluscs and other animals, although meat is not a main element of the diet. However, the predatory instinct of these animals is still in their nature. To this we must add the considerable weight of the artificial and circumscribed habitat in which zoo animals are forced to live and which alters the animal's behavior, causing very high levels of stress. In fact, it is not uncommon for zoo animals to be more aggressive towards employees, visitors and try to escape from the prison in which they are imprisoned for life.

Font: Liverpool ECHO

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