Earth Walker
April 11th, 2001, 10:32 AM
All-Too-True News From The Animal Kingdom
While a French tourist was enjoying a walk through a
Malaysian ape sanctuary on Borneo island, a 14-year
old male orangutan named Raja grabbed him, pulled
off his pants, shirt, and underwear, then fled into the
woods with the clothes. "This unusual incident is a
warning to all tourists to wear clothes which cannot be
removed easily," a park official said, adding that
authorities would track Raja "and see if the animal attempts to wear the Frenchman's clothes."
After teaching their cocker spaniel to dial 911 in case
of an emergency, Bonnie and Tom Robb of Aliso Viejo,
California, received a phone bill with $28 in 900-call
charges to Sports Pick and the Adult Date Line. When
the calls were made, Bonnie Robb insisted, "We know
the dog did it because no one else was home. I know
he did it."
Three sheep and a cow died from an overdose of
marijuana in south Brazil. Farmhand Paulo Sergio
Goulart told reporters he found bricks of plastic-wrapped
cannabis hidden in a pen, thought it was dried alfalfa,
and fed it to the animals, who soon began falling down,
bleating and mooing. "It was a good thing that the cow
wasn't giving milk," he said, "or people would have
gotten stoned by just drinking it."
At a Tokyo research center, a 13-year-old chimpanzee
who had been taught to use a key to open a padlock,
hid a key in her mouth, then used it to open her cage.
She also unlocked the cages of another chimp and an
orangutan, then opened an outer door of the facility
so they could escape.
A Dutch rubber factory began producing water beds for
cows. The water-filled rubber mats cost $175 each.
"It is good for a cow to lie comfortably," Ton Broere, a
salesperson at the Dunlop-Enerka factory in Drachten
told the daily De Voilkskrant. "Then she will produce
more milk."
While a French tourist was enjoying a walk through a
Malaysian ape sanctuary on Borneo island, a 14-year
old male orangutan named Raja grabbed him, pulled
off his pants, shirt, and underwear, then fled into the
woods with the clothes. "This unusual incident is a
warning to all tourists to wear clothes which cannot be
removed easily," a park official said, adding that
authorities would track Raja "and see if the animal attempts to wear the Frenchman's clothes."
After teaching their cocker spaniel to dial 911 in case
of an emergency, Bonnie and Tom Robb of Aliso Viejo,
California, received a phone bill with $28 in 900-call
charges to Sports Pick and the Adult Date Line. When
the calls were made, Bonnie Robb insisted, "We know
the dog did it because no one else was home. I know
he did it."
Three sheep and a cow died from an overdose of
marijuana in south Brazil. Farmhand Paulo Sergio
Goulart told reporters he found bricks of plastic-wrapped
cannabis hidden in a pen, thought it was dried alfalfa,
and fed it to the animals, who soon began falling down,
bleating and mooing. "It was a good thing that the cow
wasn't giving milk," he said, "or people would have
gotten stoned by just drinking it."
At a Tokyo research center, a 13-year-old chimpanzee
who had been taught to use a key to open a padlock,
hid a key in her mouth, then used it to open her cage.
She also unlocked the cages of another chimp and an
orangutan, then opened an outer door of the facility
so they could escape.
A Dutch rubber factory began producing water beds for
cows. The water-filled rubber mats cost $175 each.
"It is good for a cow to lie comfortably," Ton Broere, a
salesperson at the Dunlop-Enerka factory in Drachten
told the daily De Voilkskrant. "Then she will produce
more milk."