Ugly day at work yesterday, punctuated by warm flashes of light and comfort from points outside. Those flashes resolved into a soft, soothing ambient light after I got home, and spent time with those I truly care for. Sooth from beings four-footed and two. One work call came in, but aside from that, the night was calm and most reasonable.

Moment of Lyric – mp3

Though Ive tried before to tell her
Of the feelings I have for her in my heart
Every time that I come near her
I just lose my nerve
As Ive done from the start

Every little thing she does is magic
Everything she do just turns me on
Even though my life before was tragic
Now I know my love for her goes on

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/oddlyenough/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_fe_st/netherlands_bear_eats_monkey

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the zoo said Monday. In the incident Sunday at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park, several Sloth bears chased the Barbary macaque into an electric fence, where it was stunned.

It recovered and fled onto a wooden structure, where one bear pursued and mauled it to death.

The park confirmed the killing in a statement, saying: “In an area where Sloth bears, great apes and Barbary macaques have coexisted peacefully for a long time, the harmony was temporarily disturbed during opening hours on Sunday.”

“Of course the habitats here in the safari park are arranged in such a way that one animal almost never kills another, but they are and remain wild animals,” it said.

Witness Marco Berelds posted a detailed report on the incident, including photos, on a Dutch Web site. He said one Sloth bear tried unsuccessfully to shake the monkey loose after it took refuge on the structure, built of crossing horizontal and vertical poles.

Ignoring attempts by keepers to distract it, the bear climbed onto a horizontal pole, and, standing stretched on two legs, “used its sharp canines to pull the macaque, which was shrieking and resisting, from its perch.”

The bear then brought the animal to a concrete den, where three bears ate it.

The zoo said it “usually wasn’t possible” for keepers to intervene when an animal killed another.

The park plans now to move the Barbary macaques — which are large monkeys but often inaccurately called “Barbary Apes” — to another part of the park, it said.

I sort of dig the new Flickr interface. Not sure how much I like the new Yahoo one.

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