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Knut Steadily Getting Less Cute
der spiegel ^ | today | staff

Posted on 04/30/2007 10:24:07 PM PDT by Rodney King

Knut Steadily Getting Less Cute

It's a tragic fact of life. Celebrity polar bear cub Knut, now almost five months old, is gradually mutating from a fluffy porridge-lapping cub into a heavy bruiser with a penchant for meat off the bone. But the visitors are still flocking to see him.

Knut is looking more like an adult every day. Knut's days of extreme cuteness are numbered now that he has acquired a markedly longer snout and weighs a chubby 17 kilograms (37 pounds), twice as much as when he first appeared before an adoring public five weeks ago.

"His teeth are sharper and he's stronger, he still gets porridge but we now feed him beef on the bone occasionally," the zoo's bear expert Heiner Klös told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "He's calmed down a bit, he doesn't potter around as much as he used to and he's happy to sit on his own more often. But he still wanders back to his keeper to tank up on security."

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To: HIDEK6
Damm. The years weren’t kind to her, were they!

Funny, I was just thinking the opposite: the years have been very good to her. If you consider that in the first picture she was carefully posed, made up, lit, and subsequently airbrushed, and that all the hundreds of other shots that were taken in that session were thrown out; while in the second it was an unexpected moment in time, with the worst light any woman could face--I think she comes out VERY well.

21 posted on 05/01/2007 4:59:02 AM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: Lockbar
Do the insane German enviromentists still want to kill this guy?

Yes, but now the feeling is mutual.

22 posted on 05/01/2007 5:43:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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To: MarkL
It would be a good idea for the zoo keeper to keep in mind that is the way Trentwell felt about Grizzles. He saw a FRiend in the Grizzles, the Grizzles saw lunch.
23 posted on 05/01/2007 5:48:09 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Is that a woman, or a man?


24 posted on 05/01/2007 7:50:59 AM PDT by Sarinnanashi (Cthulhu tastes delicious.)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

I wonder if she'll be the same kind of tacky exploitive mother as her own mother was.

25 posted on 05/01/2007 8:07:11 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: kinoxi

I watched my Labrador eat a cat once.


26 posted on 05/01/2007 8:09:49 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (I don't give a rat's a$$ where in the world Matt Lauer is.)
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