Abandoned baby polar bear is 'better off dead' than raised in zooLast updated at 18:04pm on 19th March 2007The Berlin Zoo's abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but animal rights activists insisted he would be better off dead than raised by humans. When Knut was born last December his mother ignored him, zoo officials intervened and chose to raise him themselves "Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws," animal rights activist Frank Albrecht told the mass-circulation Bild, which has featured regular full-color photo...