Baby Monkey Born in the Only Zoo in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
From Ma'an;
In Qalqiliya in the northwest of the occupied West Bank, there is an unexpected sight: a zoo, complete with a baby monkey born on Saturday.
This is no ordinary zoo as this is a zoo under occupation. In 2002, the Israeli army invaded the city and many of the animals died from tear gas. The resourceful owners decided to stuff their animals and many are now displayed.
The Qalqiliya zoo is the only zoo in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Some animals, however, survived. A female monkey in the zoo gives birth every year but, maybe as a result of the stress inflicted during the military siege, she ate her newborn every year soon after delivery. This year, the baby monkey was taken away from its mother shortly after birth for its own survival. The vets at the zoo are now caring for the baby monkey and feeding the monkey artificial milk.
The vet, Sami Abu Khader, reported that the newborn monkey was given the name Rambo and he is in good health. Rambo is receiving special medical care inside the zoo. He added that the phenomenon of a mother eating her newborn is a rare phenomenon amongst apes.
Seems that monkeys in Palestine have more personal freedoms than alot of people do.
ReplyDeleteThosands of families are separated either by the infamous wall of apartheid... or by Israeli laws forbidding either husband or wife to live together.
Hopefully one day soon we will see the Palestinian people have the rights to raise familes... in PEACE!
Thank you DesertPeace for your comment.
ReplyDeleteI too hope that Peace would swing by the region for a visit some time soon.
The Israeli occupation, as you can read in the post, has been affecting other creatures residing in the OPT.
The mother of the newly born monkey suffers from a truma of some sort, caused by all those invations and tear gas grenades used by the IOF against the Palestinians in the OPT.
Don't really know what more to say.