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."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Funny, I was just thinking the opposite: the years have been very good to her. If you consider that in the first picture she was carefully posed, made up, lit, and subsequently airbrushed, and that all the hundreds of other shots that were taken in that session were thrown out; while in the second it was an unexpected moment in time, with the worst light any woman could face--I think she comes out VERY well.
Yes, but now the feeling is mutual.
Is that a woman, or a man?
I wonder if she'll be the same kind of tacky exploitive mother as her own mother was.
I watched my Labrador eat a cat once.
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