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A viral video of a bear attacking a monkey after the two fell off their bicycles at a Chinese zoo has sparked outrage among animal rights activists, but an official on Friday defended the show. A minute-and-a-half long video surfaced this week showing the bear biting and clawing the monkey after a mock race at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park. Keepers then pull and beat the bear with wooden sticks, prompting it to eventually release the monkey. "The performance is pure mistreatment," Zhang Dan, co-founder of the China Animal Protection Media Saloon, was quoted as saying by the China Daily newspaper on Friday. "It goes totally against the nature of the animal. But they cannot speak for ...

In the Daily Mail U.K., Marina Chapman tells the unbelievable story of her childhood: Kidnapped at 4 years old, abandoned in the jungle and raised by capuchin monkeys, young Marina survived her ordeal by living as a wild animal, then went on to live a normal life as a British housewife. Chapman has vague memories of being kidnapped when she was four years old. She was chloroformed and put on the back of a truck with other frightened children. She remembers being carried on foot by one of her kidnappers, only to be abandoned in the ...