Comments on: Knut the polar bear is a ‘publicity-addicted psycho’

By: paris herpes

paris herpes — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:19:52 +0000

Aw poor Knut! He is now an official diva!

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By: AC

AC — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:14:42 +0000

god the title of this post along with the picture of him as a baby makes me laugh EVERY time i see it.

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By: Bodhi

Bodhi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:59:22 +0000

Thanks Mairead! I’ll go check wiki for all the detail. Guess I could have done that in the 1st place

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By: Bellatrix

Bellatrix — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:17:07 +0000

The problem with Knut is that he doesn’t see himself as a polar bear. He thinks he’s a human and that is definitely not a good mental thing.

Maybe a joined session of Britney & Knut on Dr Phill’s (or Oprah, I’m hesitating) might solve the problem.

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By: Ruby

Ruby — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:18:20 +0000

I’m all for sending him to an animal park. The sooner the better, they just need to do it gradually.

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By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:52:31 +0000

Obviously, the bear is used to human companionship and doesn’t like to be alone. The lonliness issue is affects all confined animals, but as he’s bonded with humans, more than typically, he specifically craves human companionship, and doesn’t like being left alone in confinement all day.

How does this make him a psychopath?

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By: iulia

iulia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:25:20 +0000

that the Britney Spears syndrome , poor bear

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By: Herman B

Herman B — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:00:03 +0000

i’ve got nothing but kind things to say about the little b’tard.

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By: Mairead

Mairead — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:42:00 +0000

They were bred captive bears, housed in a generally sterile environment. It was an old-fashioned state zoo in a poor country in the 80s, but it was radically overhauled from the late 80s onwards, the wikipedia page covers that - and the pun is unintentional)

The story came to light, c.1990 that the poor things were literally insane - pacing around shaking their heads from side to side or swimming backwards and forwards for hours on end.

A new enclosure was built for them, with an icehouse - but since then, the polar bears have seemingly been removed altogether to a zoo in Hungary. c.2003?

Sorry I can’t post a link to newpaper articles on it because one Irish broadsheet charges a fortune for its archive, and the other is a bleedin’ rag anyway.

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By: Bodhi

Bodhi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:43:32 +0000

Poor Knut. He probably is hitting bear puberty by now. I’m sure he is very well taken care of, but I’m still not really down with zoos as a whole.

Mairead~ Whats the story with the insane polar bears at the Dublin zoo?

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