i cant imagine they'll survive from predators for long sleeping like that on the grass
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...t-chased-through-zurich-streets-update1-.htmlEscaped Circus Elephant Chased Through Zurich Streets (Update1)
June 07, 2010, 6:38 AM EDT
(Updates with footage along lake in fourth paragraph.)
By Paul Verschuur and Randall Hackley
June 7 (Bloomberg) -- An escaped circus elephant was chased through Zurich city streets for an hour by police and animal specialists before being captured unharmed.
The 26-year-old Sabu took a dip in Lake Zurich and ambled along the posh Bahnhofstrasse shopping street, passing Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS AG banking headquarters, at about 7:30 p.m. last night, Zurich police said in an e-mailed statement.
Onlookers were kept at bay by police as the animal sauntered about the city center near the main rail station, Paradeplatz and the lakeshore. Sabu escaped from her handlers at the Zirkus Knie and was captured without incident near the Talstrasse area of the Swiss financial capital. No one was injured and there was no damage to any property, police said.
Footage from one onlooker showed the elephant walking along the shores of Lake Zurich close to where tour boats dock, police vans trailing the animal at a respectful distance.
Monkey Phobia Woman Savaged By Macaques
A British woman who went to a Thai nature resort to conquer her fear of monkeys has been savaged by a pack of macaques. Skip related content
Dee Darwell, 56, lost consciousness after the monkeys surrounded her and sank their teeth into her arms and body.
Many of the primates remained hanging from her limbs as she lay collapsed with blood spurting from a "deep, deep hole" in her arm.
She was eventually rescued by Thai boatmen and was taken to Bangkok Phuket Hospital.
The horrific attack happened on Monkey Island near to the popular holiday island of Phuket in southern Thailand.
"I thought I was heading for safety under this rock in the shade, only to cool down," Mrs Darwell, from Peterborough, said.
"I laid the towel down and there were no monkeys in sight.
"The next thing I noticed, this monkey walked up next to me and I thought, oh dear, and I began to stand up to move away.
"Then, the monkey took my wrist and pounced on my right arm, sinking his teeth in and hung off it.
"He wouldn't let go; he was locked on. I was absolutely petrified."
Thai fishermen ran to the rescue after spotting more monkeys joining the assault and began prising them off.
Mrs Darwell said she had agreed to go on the Siam Sea Canoe tour with a friend to confront her fear of monkeys.
Her phobia had been triggered by her father bringing up a chimpanzee which she described as "positively evil".
She said: "I thought, this is it, I'm going to die, I'm going to be savaged by these monkeys - then I went into shock."
Mrs Darwell added: "I wouldn't have got off that bloody boat if the tour guide would have said at all that there was any danger, any risk, even the slightest risk."
Tour leader Mr Yongyut Buasod said: "We can't control the monkeys if they decide to bite someone, that's why we always warn the tourists.
"That day some people were teasing the monkeys. They don't necessarily attack the specific person teasing them."
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