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Knut Steadily Getting Less Cute
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Posted on 04/30/2007 10:24:07 PM PDT by Rodney King
Knut Steadily Getting Less Cute
It's a tragic fact of life. Celebrity polar bear cub Knut, now almost five months old, is gradually mutating from a fluffy porridge-lapping cub into a heavy bruiser with a penchant for meat off the bone. But the visitors are still flocking to see him.
Knut is looking more like an adult every day. Knut's days of extreme cuteness are numbered now that he has acquired a markedly longer snout and weighs a chubby 17 kilograms (37 pounds), twice as much as when he first appeared before an adoring public five weeks ago.
"His teeth are sharper and he's stronger, he still gets porridge but we now feed him beef on the bone occasionally," the zoo's bear expert Heiner Klös told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "He's calmed down a bit, he doesn't potter around as much as he used to and he's happy to sit on his own more often. But he still wanders back to his keeper to tank up on security."
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Comment #1 Removed by Moderator
To: Rodney King
Poor Knut’s got Anthony Michael Hall Syndrome...
2
posted on
04/30/2007 10:26:47 PM PDT
by
james500
To: Rodney King
He’s still a cutie pie but pretty soon he’ll be a cutie who can rip your face off.
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posted on
04/30/2007 10:27:32 PM PDT
by
jess35
To: jess35
He’s still a cutie pie but pretty soon he’ll be a cutie who can rip your face off.
I guess it's almost time to let the presidents of Greenpeace and PETA into the cage for a visit with the cuddly bear...
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posted on
04/30/2007 10:29:21 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
To: Rodney King; aculeus; AnAmericanMother; Billthedrill; Charles Henrickson; Senator Bedfellow
I’m Gilbert, the filbert,
The knut with the K.
The pride of Piccadilly,
The blasé roué.Oh Hades, the ladies
Who leave their wooden huts
For Gilbert, the filbert,
The Colonel of the Knuts.
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posted on
04/30/2007 10:29:24 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: james500
Does that mean Knut’s going to go become a really hot looking polar bear and have his own tv show?
To: Rodney King
I watched my cat eat a rabbit today, head and all...
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posted on
04/30/2007 10:30:31 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Rodney King
What Knut really wants to eat is raw seal.
To: Rodney King
There was a National Geographic (I think) special about raising a pair of polar bear cubs, and once they hit about 60 pounds each, they really couldn't be handled any more. It bummed the bears out, but they eventually got over it. But it was sad to watch the keepers and the bears looking longingly at each other through bars or glass... Of course, you sort of wondered what the polar bears "saw."
Mark
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posted on
04/30/2007 10:34:16 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Environmental heretics should be burned at the stake, in a "Carbon Neutral" way...)
To: Rodney King
Do the insane German enviromentists still want to kill this guy?
10
posted on
04/30/2007 10:41:20 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: MarkL
That was Klondike and Snow. Wonderful documentary. The mother abandoned them and they were tiny, tiny, tiny when they were found. And you’re right, they seemed to be well adjusted polar bears swimming in their own houses at the end of the show.
To: Rodney King
Knut Steadily Getting Less CuteKill him!
To: Rodney King
Feed him Pandas.
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posted on
04/30/2007 11:11:28 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; The majority are satisfied with a just master. -- Sallust)
To: MarkL
“Of course, you sort of wondered what the polar bears “saw.”
Lunch. ;)
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posted on
04/30/2007 11:23:10 PM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
(You "abort" bad missile launches and carrier landings. Not babies.)
To: Rodney King
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: Names Ash Housewares
Damm. The years weren’t kind to her, were they!
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posted on
04/30/2007 11:55:22 PM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: HIDEK6
Time.
The great equalizer.
To: Names Ash Housewares
Her hair needs an oil change.
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posted on
05/01/2007 12:31:50 AM PDT
by
ARE SOLE
(Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.)
To: Rodney King
He can play the lead in Al Gore’s next blockbuster, “Knut: From Cute to Global Warming Lawsuits”.
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