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Nowra Wildlife Park (Old) another zoo, another stolen marmoset

Discussion in 'Australia' started by Chlidonias, 1 Nov 2010.

  1. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    there's been a saddening number of these thefts lately :(
    Broken heart could kill missing monkey - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
     
  2. CGSwans

    CGSwans Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Three in one year certainly rings alarm bells, as does the fact that two of the three thefts have been within 110km of each other.

    Best of luck to Nowra that the monkey is found safe and sound. Is she one of your brood Steve?
     
  3. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    2:00am? Methinks thats a mistake.
     
  4. Jabiru96

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    Does anyone think that all these robberies of marmosets are linked to each other, by the same people?

    This has seriously got to stop
     
  5. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    this from another site: Marmoset monkey stolen from Nowra park - Local News - News - General - Illawarra Mercury
     
  6. Steve Robinson

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    No. The Nowra family originated from National Zoo stock.

    This is certainly a very worrying escalation of this vile activity. I know that we have taken extra steps to try to safeguard our animals and I would expect that other zoos have as well.

    However, as [I think] Zoopro said on this forum some time ago, it is virtually impossible to stop a determined thief gaining unlawful entry to a zoo or park.

    Let's face it, if a bank can't keep robbers out or a gaol can't keep inmates in, what chance does a zoo have?
     
  7. jay

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    I assume that they would not make good pets, you couldnt have them openly as it is illegal, what then would a person do with them? I truelly don't understand the mindset.
     
  8. Steve Robinson

    Steve Robinson Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    That's quite correct jay - they do NOT make good pets.

    In an interactive experience, in a sufficiently large habitat, they will take food from you, jump all over you and generally have the time of their lives. But - it's all on their terms. Try to hold one and restrain it and you will get a nasty bite.

    I don't quite know what to make of these three thefts. I doubt that they are being stolen for export [they really aren't worth much overseas], if kept as "pets" in Australia someone is going to dob sooner or later - I can only think that some ***** "wants one" and has to have one come what may. After the first theft, don't rule out copycats either.

    The "want one" theory fits with the fact that only one was stolen from Nowra. In the middle of the night it would be so easy to take the lot in their sleeping box.
     
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    Police raid on Koonawarra home uncovers monkey - Local News - News - General - Illawarra Mercury
     
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    koonawarra is within the Lake Ilawarra Local Area Command.That's where I work. I wish I was working that shift. It would have been a good job to go to.
     
  12. Steve Robinson

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    Some of the rest of us wish you had have been on that job too!!!!!!
     
  13. FriendOfTheZoo

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    Geeez - glad the little one was found & returned to her family!

    If I owned a zoo with exotic monkeys, they would have at least 10 security cameras pointed at each enclosure.
     
  14. Ara

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    Now let's see if the courts come up with a suitable sentence or if they just go to water like they usually do.
     
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    Ara, Ara - where's your sense of compassion?

    The poor thieves could have had a deprived childhood and merely adopted the little critter as a mother substitute. They certainly couldn't have been subjected to normal parenting if they were out and about with felonious intent at 2.30am.
     
  16. Ara

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    Aw Steve; now you've made me feel terrible!:p

    Looking back, I suppose those thugs who bashed that venerable old flamingo at Adelaide zoo a while ago were just getting back at society for being unfair to them, too.;)
     
  17. Steve Robinson

    Steve Robinson Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Now you see how it works!

    Judges and magistrates are just way ahead of us in interpreting the reasons why these goons behave in the way that they do.

    What rights do flamingos and marmosets have anyway? If it weren't for animals then these misfits would be taking out their frustrations on humans.

    Oh...........do they? There goes that theory.
     
  18. Ara

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    I once read a (I suppose you'd call it science fiction) book called "Taronga" and set in the apocalyptic future, in which the tigers at Taronga were let out each evening to roam the zoo and put back in their enclosure each morning.

    What a great little deterrent against after-hours intruders that'd be!
     
  19. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Why do you think Taronga's marmosets have never been stolen?

    :p :p :p

    Hix
     
  20. Ara

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    Well, the young lady found in possession of the stolen marmoset claimed in court that she thought it was a possum (yeah, right!). She was apparently maintaining it on a diet of Froot Loops.

    She got fined $2,000.