Posted on 03/19/2011 9:42:11 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
BERLIN – Berlin's beloved polar bear Knut, who rose to stardom when he was hand-raised by zoo keepers after being rejected by his mother rejected at birth, died on Saturday, a zoo official said.
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Perhaps there was a reason his mother abandoned him.
low-hanging fruit.
Devil spawn?
What, he fell off his tiny ice flow and couldn’t find another? Global warming, I tell ya.
;-)
His mother knew from day one that he was a weakling - and the cruel logic of nature did the rest.
“Perhaps there was a reason his mother abandoned him.”
That is nature’s way. Maybe the baby bear had a congenital defect.
Natural Selection ignored by the zoo keepers. Nature (i.e. Knut’s mother) rejected the cub at birth because it was not healthy.
Zoo officials (at great tax payer expense) ignored nature and forced care on the animal. Zoo officials turned an unhealthy animal into a zoo pet to generate cash sales.
Now, they wonder why the animal did not survive.
“Natural Selection ignored by the zoo keepers.”
Fortunately it’s also ignored by humans, for humans.
well done!
BushCheneyHaliburton’s fault!
I can see a musical group name coming out of this:
The Dead Knutes
or perhaps:
Die Toten Bären
JUST STOP!!!!!! your nasty hateful comments about Knut. You have no idea of the number of people he brought together from all over the world, and how much joy he brought to the world. So just turn off your computers and bury your heads in the covers, you nasty, hateful people!!!!!!
Obviously Bush’s fault......
I watched a program on this PB. When the keepers came in and found 2 cubs abandoned they took them to the hospital. They had a very hard time getting the right formula to feed them. Later on x-rays showed a very marked decrease in leg bone mass. When they FINALLY found the right formula mixture the cubs began to grow properly.
That is not a good start for any creature. Sorry to hear that Knut died. I’m sure the staff in America that saved them are heart broken. Especially the ones that voluteered to take them home so the Bear could sleep with them. Amazing how they crave that closeness.
I agree with you. I just saw the movie about Knut about a week ago and found it very heart warming. This zoo did capitalize on raising Knut, but they also took their responsibility to take care of the infant polar bear when the mother bear rejected it.
I don’t know why so many people on here are so against taking care of animals or using the oportunity to make a zoo prosperous. That kind of attitude just looks mean and ugly.
It’s the capitalist way - find a marketing opportunity and use it.
Ed Zackery!
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