Posted on 04/14/2008 3:24:05 PM PDT by dynachrome
Knut, the once-cute celebrity polar bear turned vicious killer, is at the center of a controversy over his brutal slaughter of ten carp at the Berlin Zoo. The massive polar bear, who has lived at the zoo since birth, apparently fished the carp out of the moat surrounding him and ripped them to shreds in front of several disgusted zoo patrons.
One of Germany's top newspapers, Bild, ran the headline "Knut Embroiled in Carp Scandal," and featured an article which quoted animal rights groups who criticized zoo officials for placing live animals within Knut's reach.
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Are they serious or just using sarcasm?
Knut is just misunderstood. The fish must have done something to offend him.
another crap scandal.
We have those here, too.
Imagine that a Polar Bear who eats fish..
I think Tyler Cowen says it best: "Umm... HE'S A POLAR BEAR!"
Bear + Food = Dinner
Last I heard, polar bears ate fish.
Remind me not to keep any polar bears in my backyard; they might eat my shubunkins.
So hard to tell reality from satire these days. Without clicking thru to the link I seriously can’t tell which this is. Just hope the polar bear didn’t call Obama “Boy” - then he’d really be in some serious trouble.
“serious or just using sarcasm”
Dunno, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some peta types got upset over stuff like this.
I’m sorry, someone please explain why they stocked a moat accessible by a polar bear with FISH???
Knut needs to check himself into a Carp Abuse Treatment Program pronto. Then the press will leave him alone.
Hey, that sort of thing works for the Kennedys and Hollywood celebs, right?
No, Knut is bitter about global warming so he takes comfort in killing fish. /Obama mode
I’m shocked at Knut’s taste for plain carp. I would have thought he would have developed a taste for Lake Superior Whitefish by now. With Hellman’s tartar sauce.
Why, it's obviously for purely decorative purposes, since Knut would peacefully coexist with them if he were a nice polar bear.
“Are they serious or just using sarcasm?”
It was, perhaps, carping criticism.
The wild animal did what wild animals instinctively do.
The activists who were so upset that the wild animal was being confined to a zoo should be thrilled at this behavior.
He didn’t have a mother to teach him to hunt, but he was born with the instinct to kill. They are not the same.
Dang! I have got to stop drinking and start listening to my publicist.
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