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Title: Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Is Dead Post by: Nut44x4 on March 21, 2011, 08:34:12 AM 03/19/2011
Tragedy in Berlin Zoo Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Is Dead ::MonkeyWaa:: :smt089 ::MonkeyTears:: Berlin Zoo's celebrity polar bear Knut is dead. The zoo's bear expert, Heiner Klös told the German news agency DPA that the bear collapsed and died on Saturday while in the water in the zoo's polar bear enclosure. Klös told DPA that between 600 and 700 visitors had witnessed Knut's death. The zoo's staff were shocked, he said. The cause of death is currently unclear. According to Klös, the polar bear was alone in the compound at the time. The three other bears that shared his enclosure -- his mother Tosca and two other bears named Katyusha and Nancy -- had already been shut in. The zoo plans to perform an autopsy on Knut to clarify the cause of death. snipped. NOTE>>TONS OF PHOTOS AT LINK http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,752006,00.html Title: Re: Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Is Dead Post by: Nut44x4 on March 21, 2011, 12:42:21 PM Photo Gallery: The Sad Fairytale of Knut
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-65970.html Title: Re: Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Is Dead Post by: Nut44x4 on March 21, 2011, 12:44:24 PM From Nov. 2010
11/02/2010 Berlin Zoo Under Fire Polar Bear Celebrity Knut Said to Be Suffering http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,726810,00.html Title: Re: Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Is Dead Post by: Nut44x4 on March 21, 2011, 12:45:18 PM IMO this bear died of a broken heart. (see slideshow in my reply#1)
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