MONKEY'S SUICIDE
Sightseers at the Upton Zoo, Chester, witnessed the apparently delibarate suicide of a monkey. The animal first gnawed through a rope hanging ' in his cage, and tied one end of it to the bough of a tree. Making a noose , at the other end, he inserted his head with great deliberation, and pulled i the slip-knot. | Then he climbed to the tree and jumped. Death was instantaneous. j The lceeper of the zoo held an in- . quest and returned a verdict of sui- i cide, adding that ther>e was no evidence as to deceased's state of mind. | In a lifetime's experienee, the keeped said, he had not known an animal deliberately to commit sxiicide. He is 1 guarding the other monkeys in ths i zoo, which might emulate the deed . of their companion, thinking that he had discovered a new game. The rea- ! son for the suicide remains unknown. j The monkey may, it is conceded, have had domestic difficulties of which . he was tired. In any case, he shock- j ed the spectators, who, expecting amusem'ent, witnessed a tragedy. j The Anglican Bishop of New Gui- ,
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 291, 3 August 1932, Page 3
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