Cute Knut The Bear

Cute or Psycho? Knut doesn´t understand…

… and you tell me that I´m a psychopat? How can be so cute bear like me be a psycho…?

Another German baby polar bear debut: Stuttgart’s Wilbaer

German polar bear fans have another star to visit. Stuttgart’s Wilhelma zoo presented 4-month-old Wilbaer to the public on Wednesday, bringing the fluffy cub outdoors alongside his mother, Corinna.

Wilbaer made his debut just a week after the Nuremberg zoo presented its female cub, Flocke, who has been hand-raised since her mother was seen tossing the cub around her enclosure in January.

No such worries for Wilbaer, who initially stuck close by his mother when he emerged on Wednesday.

The cub sniffed at rocks and tentatively stuck his front paws in the water before eventually following his mother’s lead and diving in.

Wilbaer was born on Dec. 10, a day before Flocke. However, the zoo only announced his birth at the end of February, citing the media frenzy that surrounded the Berlin zoo’s hand-raised polar bear cub Knut last year as its reason for keeping the arrival under wraps at first.

Still, zoo officials say they have had his name — a combination of the zoo’s name and the German for bear, “Baer” — registered as a trademark.

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Little Knuttie Picture

Picture of cute Knut from January 2007. Eating thanks to his human friends. Isn´t he sweet?

Knut Shockingly Acting Like Real Polar Bear

There’s trouble in Bear-a-dise. Psychically sensing the rise of a new cutie, an anxious Knut has taken out his aggression on some innocent fish. Flocke, meanwhile, Flocke makes her big debut this week. In a crime BBC online calls a “shock,” Knut fished out 10 live carp from his moat before “senselessly murdering” them and leaving a trail of fishy remains. He is also overweight, and as such, may invoke the infamous “twinkie defense” for his murderous actions.

Meanwhile, “younger, cuter” cub Flocke had her debut media outing Tuesday, and she’ll be open to the public for the first time today. While Flocke was initially “camera shy,” she was soon hamming it up for the press. She best enjoy it now. She’s never going to look this good again. As Flocke takes the polar bear spotlight, a Berlin Zoo official noted pragmatically “Knut’s cuteness factor has disappeared, and from time to time he likes rolling in the dirt. There is no way around it. Interest will wain.”

A New Star is Born: Polar Bear Cub Flocke to Make Zoo Debut

Nuremberg city and zoo officials on Tuesday introduced Germany’s latest polar bear cub, Flocke, to an anxious public, the Associated Press reports. The fluffy white polar bear, whose name means “snowflake” managed to capture people’s hearts.

“Not only Nuremberg, but the whole world has been in Flocke fever,” Nuremberg’s city’s deputy mayor Horst Foerther declared, quoted by the AP. He also added that the four-month-cub attracted huge crowds, eager to film and photograph her.

Flocke, born December 11 and then rejected by her mother, was raised by zookeepers. She made her public debut just as interest in the Nuremberg’s zoo fully grown polar bear Knut, seemed to fade away.

Knut became a sensation, as he managed to attract million visitors, inspired a Vanity Fair cover with Leonardo DiCaprio, a children book and a movie. He brought Berlin Zoo approximately £4 million, and ticket sales climbed by 20 per cent, as the polar bear became a key brand. However, Knut has grown and turned a little dangerous, so Flocke became the new star. The marketing machine has already taken off: there are Flocke T-shirts, a Flocke website and even a Flocke song.

Jurgen Ortmuller, Chairman of the Whale and Dolphin Protection Forum, said Knut’s exposure affected him and he expressed concerns over Flocke’s faith. He is currently trying to challenge Nuremberg’s Zoo in court, claiming it is violating the country’s animal protection laws. According to the laws, animals in captivity should be raised in a similar way to life in the wild.

Ortmuller told guardian.co.uk that Knut is “antisocial and he is doing what the visitors do. When people take photographs he makes the same actions. He is absolutely alone. The problem will be the same with Flocke in Nuremberg.” About Nuremberg Zoo director’s Dag Encke claims, that Flockes’ important contribution would be to spot the attention of the global warming threat, Ortmuller said, “It’s only about the money.”

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