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Germany just can't get enough of little polar bears, but its zookeepers seem unsure about how best to deal with them. Earlier this week the country's tabloid press agonized over the deaths of two tiny Eisbär cubs in a Nuremberg zoo, who were presumably eaten by their inexperienced mother, Vilma, after zookeepers decided not to intervene. Then on Wednesday, a fresh round of photographs and videos revealed that a third cub at the same zoo had been "rescued" by zookeepers after another mother, Vera, showed signs of rejecting her offspring. "Sweet, sweeter, sweetest!" cooed the daily...
...they are six weeks old. Despite an infrared camera and sound recording device inside the cave, the zookeepers noticed too late that the cubs were no longer making any noises. Only after they heard the mother banging against the bars did they investigate, finding no sign of the young. Polar bears often eat their cubs if they believe they are ill, though zookeepers have no clear picture if that instinct is what motivated the mother bear...
...This is not the first time that Germans have fallen prey to the attractions of a baby bear. Almost exactly one year ago, a mother polar bear in Berlin's central zoo also rejected her offspring. The cub, christened Knut, went on to become a media celebrity, gracing the cover of Vanity Fair and inspiring a blog devoted to his daily routine. A Hollywood producer, Ash Shah, recently offered the Berlin zoo $100,000 for the rights to his life story, plus a profit share for the zoo of up to $5 million if the movie does well. Negotiations...
...emblazoned across the top. What better gift can you give your kids this holiday season than the fear that it will never snow again? I only hope that there isn’t a two-dimensional rendering of the movie’s animation of the last polar bear drowning. Six months after seeing that, I still wake up crying at night...
...more polar bears...