Animals Behaving Badly

by Linda Lombardi

  “Mischievious Monkey Makes Off with Multiple Spectacles,” Hindustan Times, Sept. 3, 2010, www.hindustantimes.com/Mischievious-monkey-makes-off-with-multiple-spectacles/Article1-595495.aspx.

  “Monkey at large after plant store thefts,” UPI, July 22, 2009, www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/22/Monkey-at-large-after-plant-store-thefts/UPI-50651248300569.

  Moszczynski, Joe, “Black Bear Knocks Down Vernon Man, Steals Sandwich,” Newark Star-Ledger , July 1, 2009, www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/black_bear_attacks_vernon_man.html.

  “Oink, Oink, Oops! Ginger the Greedy Pig Swallows Diamond from £1,500 Wedding Ring,” Daily Mail, Aug. 12, 2009, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205723/Naughtypig-swallows-diamond-1-000-ring.html.

  Pankratz, Howard, “Car Thief Turns Out to Be a Bear,” Denver Post, Oct. 15, 2009, www.denverpost.com/technology/ci_13570692.

  Phillips, Rhodri, “Breakout Fuels Killer Chipmunk Concerns,” Sun (UK), July 27 2009, www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2556293/Breakout-fuels-killer-chipmunk-fears.html.

  Sapa, “Baboons Listen for Car Alarms,” Times (South Africa), July 21, 2010, www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/article562946.ece/Baboons-listen-for-car-alarms.

  “Seagull Becomes Crisp Shoplifter,” BBC News, July 20, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/6907994.stm.

  “Squirrel Stealing Flags at Mich. Cemetery,” UPI, May 30, 2009, www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/05/30/Squirrel-stealing-flags-at-Mich-cemetery/UPI-12891243709217.

  Stoler, Steve, “Police Believe Monkey Used to Steal from Business,” WFAA, July 21, 2009, www.wfaa.com/news/local/64586287.html.

  “Wing Wing: Pigeons Take Mobiles into Brazil Jail,” AFP/Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 31, 2009, www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/31/2531442.htm.

  “World Cup Tourists Warned of Baboon-Jackers,” AFP/Age, May 5, 2010, www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/world-cup-tourists-warned-of-baboonjackers-20100505-u8jv.html.

  Yapp, Robert, “Colombian Police Capture Pigeon Carrying Drugs to Prison,” Telegraph (UK), Jan. 18, 2011, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/8269366/Colombian-police-capture-pigeon-carrying-drugs-to-prison.html.

  2. ASSAULT, RUNNING AMOK, AND ARSON

  Allen, Nick, “Rock Band Kings of Leon Forced Off Stage by Pigeon Droppings,” Telegraph (UK), July 25, 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7909398/Rock-band-Kings-of-Leon-forced-off-stage-by-pigeon-droppings.html.

  “Army of Frogs Closes Greek Highway,” Telegraph (UK), May 26, 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7767860/Army-of-frogs-closes-Greek-highway.html.

  “Attack at SJ’s Evergreen School,” CBS News, May 10, 2007, http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090609065838/http://cbs5.com/local/Squirrel.Attack.Evergreen.2.455548.html

  “Austrian Woman Reports Otter Attack in Wisconsin,” AP/Seattle Times, Aug. 11, 2009, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009642132_apusotterattackwisconsin.html.

  Barrowclough, Anne, “Man Wrestles Crazed Ninja Kangaroo After It Invades Family Home,” Times, March 10, 2009, www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5875004.ece.

  Bermant, Charlie, “Cat’s ‘Step Aerobics’ Blamed for House Fire in Port Townsend,” Peninsula Daily News, Nov. 9, 2010, www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20101109/news/311099985/cats-step-aerobics-blamed-for-house-fire-in-port-townsend.

  Bhusnurmath, Mythili, “Too Much Monkey Business,” Economic Times, Oct. 28, 2007, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Columnists/Too_much_monkey_business/articleshow/2496079.cms.

  Blake, Heidi, “Rats Attack the Railways,” Telegraph (UK), Feb. 3, 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/7139748/Rats-attack-the-railways.html.

  “Boar Draw—Four-Legged Fans Run Amok on German Pitch,” AFP/France24, Sept. 3, 2010, www.france24.com/en/20100903-boar-draw-four-legged-fans-run-amok-german-pitch.

  “Boar Rampage—One Went to Church, Another to the Market,” Spiegel Online International, March 17, 2008, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,541867,00.html.

  Bobo, Jeff, “Cows Licking House Cause $100 Damage,” Times-News Online, Dec. 6, 2009, http://timesnews.net/article.php?id=9018881.

  “Boy, 3, Hospitalized in Playground Squirrel Attack,” WESH, Sept. 5, 2007, www.wesh.com/r/14052662/detail.html.

  Chandler, Mark, “Catford: Elderly Dancer Reveals Crow Attack Horror,” News Shopper, June 9, 2010, www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/8208903.CATFORD__Elderly_dancer_reveals_crow_attack_horror.

  ———, “Eltham: Crow Attacks Leave Blonde Joggers in a Flap,” News Shopper, May 28, 2010, www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/8190485.ELTHAM__Crow_attacks_leave_blonde_joggers_in_a_flap.

  “Chaos and Destruction in German Town—Invasion of the Wild Boars,” Spiegel Online International, Nov. 27, 2006, www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,450995,00.html.

  “Chased by an Angry Squirrel,” Metro, April 29, 2003, www.metro.co.uk/weird/3416-chased-by-an-angry-squirrel.

  “Columbus-Bound Flight Delayed by Otters,” 10TV, Dec. 23, 2009, www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2009/12/23/story-columbus-houston-flight-otters.html?sid=102.

  Comenetz, Jacob, “Chimp Bites Off Berlin Zoo Director’s Finger,” Reuters, June 10, 2009, www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE55957X20090610.

  Cox, Teri, “Damage Caused by Runaway Zebras,” KTXL, Aug. 16, 2010, www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-news-damagedcausedbyrunawayzebras-0816,0,2425191.story.

  Crossland, David, “Climate Change’s Clear Winners: Europe’s Wild Boar Population Exploding,” Spiegel Online International, Nov. 25, 2009, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,663411,00.html.

  Deutsch, Kevin, and Leo Standora, “Bronx Man Finds 3-Foot-Long Corn Snake Coiled Comfortably on His Toilet Seat,” New York Daily News, Sept. 21, 2010, www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/09/21/2010-09-21_3ft_snake_is_on_my_toilet_seat.html.

  Dhillon, Amrit, “Stampeding Elephants Dominate Political Agenda in Indian Elections,” Telegraph (UK), April 4, 2009, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/5105256/Stampeding-elephants-dominate-political-agenda-in-Indian-elections.html.

  “Disturbing the Dead—Wild Boar Wreck One of Europe’s Biggest Cemeteries,” Spiegel Online International, Oct. 2, 2007, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,509138,00.html.

  “Elephant Holds Up Rail Traffic—Train Engine Damaged,” Telegraph (Calcutta), Aug. 17, 2010, www.telegraphindia.com/1100818/jsp/northeast/story_12822176.jsp.

  “Elephants Loom Large as an Issue in Indian Elections,” Reuters, March 31, 2009, www.reuters.com/article/idUSDEL95647.

  “Elephants Trample Indian Democratic Process,” BreakingNews, April 27, 2009, www.breakingnews.ie/world/elephants-trample-indian-democratic-process-408510.html.

  “ ‘Elephant!’ SUV Sideswipes Circus Escapee,” AP/MSNBC, Nov. 5, 2009, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33675514.

  “Escaped Zebra Captured in Downtown Atlanta,” AP/MSNBC, Feb. 19, 2010, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35469033/ns/us_news-weird_news.

  Fene, Deanna, “Snake in Toilet Bites Woman,” First Coast News, July 20, 2005, www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=40891.

  “Flying Rabbits, Violent Cows and Drowning Hedgehogs,” Spiegel Online International, Aug. 13, 2009, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,642112-4,00.html.

  Gentleman, Amelia, “Monkeys in the Parks, Monkeys in the Palace,” New York Times, Nov. 14, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/world/asia/14delhi.html.

  “German Safari: Augsburg Police Spend Hours Chasing Escaped Zebras,” Spiegel Online International, Feb. 9, 2009, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,606487,00.html.

  “Goat Starts Iowa Fire; Cat Raises Alarm,” UPI, Jan. 14, 2009, www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/01/14/Goat-starts-Iowa-fire-cat-raises-alarm/UPI-55651231954315.

  Grady, Denise, “Dangerous Cows,” New York Times, July 31, 2009, http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/dangerous-cows.

  Greenberg, Emily, and Toby Sells, “Critter’s Mischief Creates
Mayhem; Long Power Blackouts Rare in Medical Center,” Commercial Appeal, June 26, 2010, www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jun/26/critters-mischief-creates-mayhem.

  Grubaugh, Dennis, “Cat Triggers Outage, Lives to Meow About It,” Alton (IL) Telegraph, Nov. 23, 2009, www.thetelegraph.com/news/power-33442-carrollton-residents.html.

  Hawley, Charles, “A Quarter Century after Chernobyl Radioactive Boar on the Rise in Germany,” Spiegel Online International, July 30, 2010, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,709345,00.html.

  “Hero in Underpants ‘Tackles ‘Roo,’” BBC News, March 10, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7932870.stm.

  Hough, Andrew, “Wild Boxing Kangaroo Knocks Australian Jogger Unconscious After Assault,” Telegraph (UK), March 19, 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7481566/Wild-boxing-kangaroo-knocks-Australian-jogger-unconscious-after-assault.html.

  Hunter, Thomas, “Roo Rage: How Rocky and Chris Survived,” Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 24, 2009, www.smh.com.au/national/roo-rage-how-rocky-and-chris-survived-20091124-jeoe.html.

  “Jackdaw Causes Havoc in Quiet Nottinghamshire Village,” Telegraph (UK), Oct. 9, 2009, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6284569/Jackdaw-causes-havoc-in-quiet-Nottinghamshire-village.html.

  Jennings, Ralph, “Toilet Snake Attack: Urban Legend Comes True?” Reuters, May 11, 2009, www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE54A5WL20090511.

  “Kangaroo Attacks,” Amazing Australia, www.amazingaustralia.com.au/animals/kangaroo_attacks.htm.

  Kim, Christine, “South Korean Plane Delayed by Bird on Board,” Reuters, Oct. 7, 2009, www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5961A920091007.

  Lewis, Leo, “Tokyo Crows Hack into ‘Internest,’” Times, June 15, 2006, www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1083581.ece.

  “Llama Drama on German Motorway,” AFP/France 24, July 14, 2010, www.france24.com/en/20100714-llama-drama-german-motorway.

  McGreevy, Ronan, “Traffic Chaos as Circus Llamas Take to the Highway,” Irish Times, Oct. 2, 2009, www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1002/1224255679097.html.

  “Monkey Menace: Delhi Deputy Mayor SS Bajwa Dies,” Times of India, Oct. 21, 2007, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Monkey_menace_Delhi_Deputy_Mayor_S_S_Bajwa_dies/rssarticleshow/2478340.cms.

  “‘National Pet Fire Safety Day’ Prevention Tips to Keep Pets from Starting Home Fires,” American Kennel Club, July 12, 2010, www.akc.org/news/index.cfm?article_id=4152.

  “Okla. Electric Crews Say Bobcat Caused Outage,” AP/ABC News, March 11, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/WaterCooler/wireStory?id=10065514.

  “Police Become Prey—Wild Boar Hunts Police in German Town,” Spiegel Online International, March 4, 2008, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,539289,00.html.

  “Possible Alligator Firestarter Back with Owner; Investigation Continues,” WTAE, March 5, 2009, www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/18863914/detail.html.

  Powell, David, “Pet Dog Sets Fire to Kitchen in Llanfairfechan,” Daily Post, Nov. 11, 2009, www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2009/11/11/pet-dog-sets-fire-to-kitchen-in-llanfairfechan-55578-25139441.

  Pushkin, Yuri, “Ice Skating Bear Kills Russian Circus Hand,” CNN, Oct. 23, 2009, www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/23/russia.skating.bear.death.

  Ricigliano, Ryan, “VFW Fire? Blame the Flaming Rat,” Yakima (WA) Herald Republic, June 18, 2010, www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/06/18/flaming-rat-caused-vfw-fire.

  Sanderson, W. T., “Fatalities Caused by Cattle—Four States, 2003–2008,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, July 31, 2009, www.cdc.gov/mmWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5829a2.htm.

  Schulz, Matt, and Kelly Ryan, “Goat Attack Leaves Three Injured at On Luck Chinese Nursing Home in Donvale,” Herald Sun (Australia), April 20, 2010, www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/goat-attack-leaves-three-injured-at-on-luck-chinese-nusing-home-in-donvale/story-e6frf7kx-1225855963381.

  Sharp, David, “Motorists Warned to Beware of Moose on the Move,” AP/Boston Globe, May 28, 2010, www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2010/05/28/new_england_motorists_warned_to_beware_of_moose.

  Shimogawa, Duane, “Threatened Bird Brings an End to Friday Night Lights on Kauai,” Hawaii News Now, July 21, 2010, www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12843587.

  “Six Foot Long Snake Discovered in Toilet in Poland,” Telegraph (UK), Sept. 20, 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8014470/Six-foot-long-snake-discovered-in-toilet-in-Poland.html.

  “Skittering Squirrel Forces Plane to Land,” AP/USA Today, Feb. 15, 2007, www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2007-02-15-skittering-squirrel-forces-plane-landing_x.htm.

  “Snake Plunges Philippine Island into Darkness,” AFP/Yahoo! News, Sept. 10, 2010, www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i1GvFJjvcIvzVQq6KVxbmTXUIYTA.

  “Squirrel Attacks Anger Winter Park Residents,” Click Orlando, Aug. 11, 2006, www.clickorlando.com/news/9665269/detail.html.

  Taylor, Joel, “Villagers Live in Fear of Dive-Bombing Buzzard,” Metro, June 14, 2010, www.metro.co.uk/news/830702-villagers-live-in-fear-of-dive-bombing-buzzard.

  “Trunk and Disorderly: Sabu the Escaped Elephant Sparks Chaos on the City Streets,” Daily Mail, June 8, 2010, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1284727/Trunk-disorderly-Sabu-escaped-elephant-sparks-chaos-streets-Zurich.html.

  “Wallaby Goes on Run on Motorway,” Telegraph (UK), Jan. 18, 2010, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7012129/Wallaby-goes-on-run-on-motorway.html.

  Webb, Helena, “Roo Rage Stories Excite Researcher,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Feb. 3, 2005, www.abc.net.au/wa/stories/s1295464.htm.

  “Wild Boar Crash Test Highlights Growing Accident Risk,” Spiegel Online International, April 20, 2010, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,690156,00.html.

  “Wild Boar Storms Frankfurt Church,” Spiegel Online International, Nov. 28, 2008, www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,593287,00.html.

  “Wild Elephant Causes Traffic Jam,” CBS News, Aug. 19, 2010, www.3news.co.nz/Wild-elephant-causes-traffic-jam/tabid/1160/articleID/171538/Default.aspx.

  Yancey, Kitty Bean, “Snakes on a Plane Isn’t Just a Movie,” USA Today, Aug. 14, 2006, www.usatoday.com/life/2006-08-14-snakes_x.htm.

  “YFD: Rat Caused VFW Fire,” KNDO/KNDU, June 18, 2010, www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=12675091.

  “Zebras Corraled After Wandering Calif. Streets,” AP/Boston.com, Aug. 16, 2010, www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2010/08/16/zebras_corraled_after_wandering_calif_streets.

  3. KINKY CREATURES

  Afianos, Jasmin, “Horny Roo Stalks NT Women,” NT News, May 14, 2010, www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/05/14/147401_ntnews.html.

  Bagemihl, Bruce, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, St. Martin’s Press, 1999 , pp. 69–70, 126, 205, 208, 209, 273, 274, 277–278, 286, 291, 305, 310, 333, 346, 355, 358, 365, 369, 373, 376, 383, 385, 389, 435, 451, 463, 469, 471, 475, 481, 482, 485, 494, 503, 538, 542, 581, 586, 639, 642, 643, 650, 681.

  Bakke, Dave, “Goose Won’t Be Deterred from Concrete Girlfriend,” State Journal-Register, March 23, 2010, www.sj-r.com/bakke/x1526478793/Dave-Bakke-Goose-wont-be-deterred-from-concrete-girlfriend.

  Barash, David, and Judith Eve Lipton, The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People, Freeman, 2001, pp. 39, 52–54, 89.

  Darwin, Charles, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Clarke, Given and Hooper, 1874, chap. 14.

  Deaner, Robert O., Amit V. Khera, and Michael L. Platt, “Monkeys Pay Per View: Adaptive Valuation of Social Images by Rhesus Macaques,” Current Biology 15, no. 6 (2005): 543–548, www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2805%2900093-X.

  Dixson, A. F., Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Human Beings. Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 139, 140, 142.

  French, Thomas, Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives, Hyperion, 2010, p. 34–35, 143. Gilbya, Ian C., M. Emery Thom
pson, Jonathan D. Ruane, and Richard Wrangham, “No Evidence of Short-Term Exchange of Meat for Sex Among Chimpanzees,” Journal of Human Evolution 59, no. 1 (2010): 44–53, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.02.006.

  Gray, Denis D., “Porn Sparks Panda Baby Boom in China: Research—and Blue Movies—Attributed to Record-High Birth Rate in 2006,” MSNBC, Nov. 27, 2006, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15852885.

  Gumert, Michael D., “Payment for Sex in a Macaque Mating Market,” Animal Behaviour 74, no. 6 (2007): 1655–1667, doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.03.009.

  Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection, Pantheon, 1999, p. 89.

  Hunter, F. M., and L. S. Davis, “Female Adélie Penguins Acquire Nest Material from Extrapair Males After Engaging in Extrapair Copulations,” The Auk 115, no. 2 (1998): 526–528, www.jstor.org/pss/4089218.

  Judson, Olivia, Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex, Holt Paperbacks, 2003, pp. 88, 106–108.

  Mahr, Krista, “Do Monkeys Pay for Sex?” Time, Jan. 7, 2008, www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1700821,00.html.

  Marshall, Michael, “The Sex Lives of Animals: A Rough Guide,” New Scientist, Sept. 2, 2008, www.newscientist.com/article/dn14638-animals-behaving-badly.html?feedId=sex_rss20.

  McDonnell, S. M., and A. L. Hinze, “Aversive Conditioning of Periodic Spontaneous Erection Adversely Affects Sexual Behavior and Semen in Stallions,” Animal Reproduction Science 89 (2005): 77–92, http://research.vet.upenn.edu/Portals/49/SEAM_ISSR_2005.pdf.

  Milner, Richard N. C., Michael D. Jennions, and Patricia R. Y. Backwell, “Safe Sex: Male–Female Coalitions and Pre-Copulatory Mate-Guarding in a Fiddler Crab,” Biology Letters 6, no. 2 (2010): 180–182, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0767.

  Moeliker, C. W. (Kees), “The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae),” Deinsea 8 (2001): 243–247, www.nmr.nl/nmr/pages/showPage.do?itemid=1930&instanceid=16.

  Mollallem, Jon, “Can Animals Be Gay?” New York Times Magazine. March 31, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html?pagewanted=10.