Posted on 04/02/2011 9:39:54 AM PDT by algernonpj
Encephalitis 'was probably caused by an infection which he may have carried undetected for weeks' ...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I found a link that we can post to.
Heartbreaking.
You have to feel bad for everyone involved and watching. They really can’t rush in and drag a bear out on a moment’s notice like that. He was sick, but lived a pretty good (short) life I’m sure.
Heartbreaking?
Oh, what sad news!
Makes you wonder how many polar bears have brain swelling and die like this on a yearly basis. Might not have anything to do with global warming.
dead animal bump
Thanks. Some websites seem to have a protective mechanism that forces the viewer to the homepage rather than a specific article. I don't know why that earlier link wouldn't work.
Regarding the brain swelling and infection, I wonder if there was any simple test that could have picked this up or it is so infrequent that no one would think to look for it? Anyway, so sad. The pictures of him playing with the blanket bring back the time when so many were captivated by Knut.
Polar bear this, polar bear that. The penguins are the true victims of global warming and are getting sick and tired of the polar bears hogging the spotlight!!!!!!!
This is why you don’t let Charlie Sheen visit the zoo.
He had a defect his mother sensed and left him,in the wild he would have lasted a day,Nature survival of the fittest.
Nobody likes watching an animal drown. Especially one that makes so much money for them...
I don’t want to watch an animal drown either. And had the zookeepers known in advance the extent of this animal’s medical problems I would hope, in the name of basic kindness, that they would put it down if they couldn’t cure it.
But I’m sorry, I don’t find this story “heartbreaking”. Not because it’s about an animal, but because it’s not cruelty to animals. Cruelty to animals is heartbreaking (as well as infuriating). This is just something that happens.
Actually Polar bears are not decreasing in numbers but are increasing, everything to the contrary is made up BS by the greenie crowd. So, regardless of how they die in the wild they are still reproducing faster than they are dying.
Had they rushed in to save Knut he would have taken a couple of zoo keepers with him. When you are a Polar Bear 911 is not an option.
It’s heartbreaking for the zoo because they lost their money attraction. LOL.
Knut was hugely popular and brought in huge bucks. And truly, that is sad, because we like to think family friendly attractions will do well financially.
The zoo is, believe me, is absolutely heartbroken over this. Privately, I’ve heard Knut was a nasty beast (but after all, he was a BEAR).
It should be thought of as heartwarming, not heart breaking.
The bear would have died as a cub in the wild, so he got to live a life for as long as fate would allow him to.
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