Animal Terror for Kids

What are you doing Macaque! Oh you better not catch that adorable little one. Whatever it is, it is much cuter than you. Don’t be jealous.

Look at his haughty expression

Every year, more than 100000 monkeys and apes are used for biomedical research around the world. A great percentage of those primates are species of macaques.

Nearly all (73-100%) pet and captive macaques are carriers of the herpes B virus.

But they have their revenge from time to time -

Frighteningly long list of primate attacks on owners.

This is my favorite one.

June 3, 1995/Hollidaysburg, Pa.: An escaped “pet” monkey grabbed a kitchen knife and cigarette lighter, holding police at bay for nearly two hours. The monkey ran through the house and bit two women.

Kids, if you listen closely to adults talk , and the topic of Australia comes up, at least one very stupid and unfunny person will flail their arms and yell in a bad Australian accent  “a dingo ate my baby!” That’s when you can step in and look like a hero with this information:

                      That terror actually happens

The most famous incident was in 1980 when a nine week old baby Azaria Chamberlain was snatched from her family’s camping site near Ayers Rock. Her mother Lindy was sentenced to life in prison, for allegedly murdering her child, and would have stayed there. However after serving four years in prison, the baby’s missing jacket was found near a dingo’s den,  Lindy was released.

Also in 1998, in Waddy point camping area, a girl about a year old was grabbed by a dingo and would have suffered the same fate, but her Dad saved her. Oh, and  there have been over 400 dingo attacks on children, just the documented ones, so that means there has to have been lots more that just were not reported.