Knut Gets an Italian girlfriend Gianna at the Berlin Zoo

Knut the polar bear, arguably the most famous polar bear in the world, is finally going to get some love, well hopefully anyway. His new girlfriend, Gianna, from a zoo in Italy, arrived at the Berlin Zoo today as a...

Swedish Zoo May Adopt Berlin Bear Knut

The face of Berlin's zoo, Knut, the famous polar bear that was raised in captivity and who is at the heart of a renewed interest and funding in the Berlin Zoo may be making his way to Sweden. The 1999 agreement...

Polar Bear Knut's surrogate father Dörflein found dead of heart attack & cancer

09/24/2008 - Update:"An autopsy has shown Berlin's famous zookeeper Thomas Dörflein died of a heart attack, but Germany daily Bild reported Wednesday that Knut’s surrogate father was also suffering from...

Zoos in battle over Knut the polar bear's riches

The world's most famous polar bear, who provoked fierce debates on animal rights, and also appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, is now involved in another battle, this time over who will get all his money! I'm...

Move over Knut, there's a new cub in town

With celebrity polar bear Knut now fully grown, the latest German polar bear idol--Flocke--comes none too soon.  Fame in the animal world, it appears, is as ageist as Hollywood.Flocke is already making...

Knut the polar bear 'addicted to fame'

I fear it was only a matter of time. Now the infamous polar bear of Berlin Zoo is following in Britney Spears' footsteps and is apparently finding it hard to deal with the pressures of fame.  "Knut has turned...

One year on, tourists no longer go nuts for cuddly Knut

When I first saw a video of Knut, I thought he was the cutest thing I had ever seen, and desperately wanted to get a polar bear cub for myself. After reading the story below, I am not so sure... after all,...

The Knext Knut? New German Polar Cub Star

A female polar bear cub separated from it mother (who had some issues, apparently) is poised to become Germany's next child star. Speculation is rampant (in German papers, at least) that the currently-unnamed tyke...

Adopted polar bear celebrates first birthday

"Knut, the world-famous polar bear, turned one today and polished off a giant fish cake at a birthday party in Berlin Zoo that was broadcast live on German television. Hundreds of children gathered at the zoo with birthday cards for the bear, who became a tourist magnet after...

Celebrity polar bear Knut is one

Not only is "cute Knut" the polar bear - abandoned at birth by his mother - now in rude health as he marks his first birthday, he has an army of fans and the honour of being a massive marketing...

My, how you've grown Knut

Knut has been hand-raised by Doerflein and other zoo staff after his mother rejected him and another cub that died. Keeper Thomas Doerflein, who has been hand-rearing Knut, believes the carefree days of tumbling...

Knut's sick!

The Berlin zoo's superstar polar bear cold has an infection and visiting hours have been cut short. The vets have put him on antibiotics, though, and he's expected to recover in no time at all."Born at the zoo...

Polar bear cub Knut prompts Easter crush at Berlin zoo - Posted by Michael Fo...

"About 125,000 people descended on Berlin zoo over the Easter weekend to get a glimpse of Knut, the polar bear cub who has become a global sensation, the zoo said on Monday.  About 300,000 extra people have visited since the four-month-old cub, who was rejected by his...

Live "teddy" bear cub boost sales in Germany

You'd be wrong if you thougt it was chucky in child's play. Knut's is a Berlin Zoo polar bear cub so much like a teddy and visitors are trooping in their thousands to see the fantasy alive. Fortunately not only...

Berlin " Knuts" for polar bear cub

Berlin's youngest celebrity made a debut today at the zoo.  Knut, the polar bear cub who was abandoned by his mother last year was recently involved in a scandal, when a German animal-rights activist, Frank...

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