Crowds were still flocking to
Berlin Zoo on Tuesday to catch
a glimpse of a white polar
bear cub, whose fate has
attracted international
controversy.Stumbling out of
its cave, the cub known as
'Knut' delighted the crowds by
playing around with a deflated
football and poking around at
the legs of his handler,
Thomas Doerflein.
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Crowds were still flocking to
Berlin Zoo on Tuesday to catch
a glimpse of a white polar
bear cub, whose fate has
attracted international
controversy.Stumbling out of
its cave, the cub known as
'Knut' delighted the crowds by
playing around with a deflated
football and poking around at
the legs of his handler,
Thomas Doerflein.Doerflein has
raised Knut by hand since his
mother rejected him and his
brother, who later died,
shortly after their birth. The
fate of the nearly 19-pound
bear attracted international
attention, when an animal
activist insisted that the cub
would have been better off
dead than raised by humans.
The zoo flatly rejected the
idea. By: search agencyEbru
News03/28/2007

Category Pets & Animals

Tags football, bear, berlin, zoo, polar, cub