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Polar bear Knut celebrates birthday in Berlin Zoo
Wed Dec 5, 2007 7:35pm GMT
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Knut, Germany's favourite polar bear, celebrated his first birthday at Berlin Zoo on Wednesday by gobbling down a fish cake topped with a candle-shaped rolling pin.
Knut's keeper, Thomas Doerflein, brought out the cake loaded with fish, fruit, vegetables and rice on a bed of lettuce.
As soon as it was placed on the ground in his pen, Knut bolted out of his cave to devour it. After finishing the cake he began chewing on the "candle".
Rejected by his mother Tosca before being controversially raised by zookeepers, Knut has grown from a 800-gram (1.8 pounds) ball of fur to a gangly bear weighing more than 100 kg (220 pounds).
"I'm here because of Knuty's birthday," said Jasmin Sambrano of Caracas, Venezuela, one of a horde of animal lovers who came to help Knut celebrate his big day.
"I'm here ... especially for the birthday of our very beloved Knut."
After an animal rights campaigner criticised the zoo's decision to raise Knut by hand in comments interpreted as a call for the bear to be put down, German media and public opinion rallied behind the photogenic bear.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL05967520071205
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I think Knut may be the German misspelling of an alternative name for Muhammad.
Wed Dec 5, 2007 7:35pm GMT
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Knut, Germany's favourite polar bear, celebrated his first birthday at Berlin Zoo on Wednesday by gobbling down a fish cake topped with a candle-shaped rolling pin.
Knut's keeper, Thomas Doerflein, brought out the cake loaded with fish, fruit, vegetables and rice on a bed of lettuce.
As soon as it was placed on the ground in his pen, Knut bolted out of his cave to devour it. After finishing the cake he began chewing on the "candle".
Rejected by his mother Tosca before being controversially raised by zookeepers, Knut has grown from a 800-gram (1.8 pounds) ball of fur to a gangly bear weighing more than 100 kg (220 pounds).
"I'm here because of Knuty's birthday," said Jasmin Sambrano of Caracas, Venezuela, one of a horde of animal lovers who came to help Knut celebrate his big day.
"I'm here ... especially for the birthday of our very beloved Knut."
After an animal rights campaigner criticised the zoo's decision to raise Knut by hand in comments interpreted as a call for the bear to be put down, German media and public opinion rallied behind the photogenic bear.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL05967520071205
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I think Knut may be the German misspelling of an alternative name for Muhammad.