Polar Bear Baby Raised With Elvis
Zookeepers are doing their best to keep a baby polar bear alive, after it was abandoned by its mother.
A healthy daily meal keeps the baby animal up and running, but after each meal, the baby polar bear is treated to 'feel good Elvis music'.
However, not all is well in Berlin. Animal right activists have filed a request to put the baby polar bear to sleep. Their main argument is the 'human' and therefore unnatural way the baby bear is raised. Away from his kin, the little animal has no chance to live a normal Bear live.
Needless to say that the general public thinks different, after seeing the cute first pictures.
Polar baby melts hearts
Knut, the polar bear cub who has become a global sensation after surviving rejection by his mother, made his first public appearance at the Berlin Zoo yesterday.
Knut seemed to lap up the attention from dozens of cameramen and photographers, toddling around his enclosure, occasionally nibbling the boots of handler Thomas Doerflein and poking his nose into a pond.
The 9kg bear triggered a wave of attention in recent days after an animal activist said he should have been put down after he and his brother were spurned by their mother following their birth in December.
His brother died, but Knut was reared by the zoo, with Mr Doerflein bottle-feeding him and strumming Elvis Presley songs for him on his guitar. Despite an impassioned debate over whether it is right to hand-rear the cub, the zoo has vowed it will not kill the bear.
A zoo in the eastern German city of Leipzig was faced with a similar dilemma last year when a sloth bear rejected its two newborn cubs. The zoo allowed one to die and put the other down because it feared that a bear raised by humans would become too attached to its handler.
Knut has his own video podcast and a song: "I was born in a zoo in the middle of Berlin, I have a lot of friends even a penguin ...' Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has taken Knut's portrait for an environmental campaign.
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