Berlin rallies behind baby bear

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BBC NEWS | Europe | Berlin rallies behind baby bear

Berlin Zoo has vowed it will not kill a baby polar bear amid a heated row over whether it is right to hand-rear the cub, who was rejected by his mother.

Knut has been nurtured by a keeper who has slept by his side, bottle-fed him, and strummed him Elvis Presley songs.
But suggestions the three-month-old should have been put down to stop him becoming emotionally and physically reliant on a human have caused outrage.

"Each time his keeper leaves him, and he can't follow, he will die a little."

Thoughts?

 

[Tenn_Vol_Authority]

Who cares? It's just a dumb, expendable animal.

 

[MG1968]

wow, the left is really in a quandary here. kill a baby bear that has a chance to lead a long, happy and healthy life. or let that baby bear live and accept the notion that humans aren't a mistake of nature.

 

[emainvol]

wow, the left is really in a quandary here. kill a baby bear that has a chance to lead a long, happy and healthy life. or let that baby bear live and accept the notion that humans aren't a mistake of nature.

it's amazing to me how this could be politicized. good job.

 

[MG1968]

it'll become a political issue whether you want it to or not.

 

[emainvol]

not if you don't make it one.

 

[MG1968]

then let the bear die and be done with it.

 

[emainvol]

then let the bear die and be done with it.

or don't, but don't tell me i don't want a bear to die because i am a liberal. you won't hook me on this one.

 

[MG1968]

never said you did want the bear to die. but with all the damage man has allegedly done to the environment, the fact that we are capable of keeping an endangered species alive should be encouraging.

 

[dan4vols]

Isn't thought provoking how individuals can be kind, thoughtful, and decent...and yet man as a whole has raped this planet and turned much of it into a sewer.

 

[MG1968]

and yet man as a whole has raped this planet and turned much of it into a sewer.

that is a stretch...

 

[vader]

man as a whole has raped this planet .

Did you see what the earth was wearing? She was asking for it.:crazy:

 

[allvol123]

Did you see what the earth was wearing? She was asking for it.:crazy:

lol:

You called Earth a whore.

 

[emainvol]

never said you did want the bear to die. but with all the damage man has allegedly done to the environment, the fact that we are capable of keeping an endangered species alive should be encouraging.

agree 100%.

 

[dan4vols]

that is a stretch...

Next time you toss something out going down the road think of the stretch.

 

[Tenn_Vol_Authority]

Did you see what the earth was wearing? She was asking for it.:crazy:

Bobby Knight probably thinks Earth should just sit back and let us finish. :crazy: