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[Gaborn]

Germany's celebrity polar bear Knut has triggered a new controversy by fishing out 10 live carp from his moat and killing them in front of visitors.

Critics say Berlin Zoo should not have put live fish inside Knut's enclosure. But German media report that the carp were put there to eat up algae.

There is speculation that hand-reared Knut killed the carp just for fun.

A new polar bear cub - Flocke - made her public debut at Nuremberg Zoo on Tuesday, shown live on television.

The zoo is expecting up to 25,000 visitors daily, eager to see Flocke (German for "snowflake"). She has also been hand-reared, because the zoo feared her mother might harm her.

But the zoo has said it wants to avoid any repetition of "Knut mania". Knut was rejected by his mother, but Berlin Zoo decided to hand-rear him, in a controversial move.

There has been heated debate about whether cubs rejected by their mothers should be saved or whether nature should be allowed to run its course.

Knut is now more than a year old and has grown overweight.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine news website reports that Knut "senselessly murdered the carp", fishing them out, playing with them and then leaving the remains.

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Knut is a bear. Bears eat fish. Are people REALLY that stupid? I mean. Seriously. What the hell is wrong with people? Did they think he was a vegetarian?

Oh, and Flocke is cute:

 

[xXCHAOSXx]

Holy Shit Bears eat fish? never woulda guessed.

 

[Zeed]

Knut is a bear. Bears eat fish.

Yeah but he wasn't eating them. And he's also got a reputation for being pretty crazy. There was a thread about it not too long ago.

 

[Forgotten_Taco]

Their fish for god sakes, they deserve to die. It's not like he's dragging children into his cage.

 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Knut is a psycho.

 

[Guy Legend]

Senseless killings. The bear should go on trial.

 

[monkspider]

This vicious beast needs to be put down for the safety of all of humanity.

 

[birdman]

Colbert was right.

 

[captainbiotch]

"senselessly"

as opposed to all those rational polar bears out there.

humanity is a lost cause :lol

 

[Gaborn]

Yeah but he wasn't eating them. And he's also got a reputation for being pretty crazy. There was a thread about it not too long ago.

Ok, sure. But still. Fish. Bear. Bear. Fish. Not murder.

 

[daemonic]

Their fish for god sakes, they deserve to die. It's not like he's dragging children into his cage.

Fish deserve to die? What have they ever done to you?

 

[Brannon]

Fish deserve to die? What have they ever done to you?

They beat him in a staring contest.

 

[Ferrio]

What a load of carp.

 

[vas_a_morir]

They beat him in a staring contest.

...

lol.

EDIT: I can't bear another one of these carpy threads

 

[Spirit of Jazz]

I can't read the n before the u, that tied with him being adorable results in hilarity and the right for him to maim whatever he wants for whatever reason.

Seriously, whenever a kid pulls the legs off a daddy long-legs or burns an ant with a magnifying glass they should be put down.

 

[Tathanen]

And he's also got a reputation for being pretty crazy. There was a thread about it not too long ago.

That's a grown-up child celebrity for ya.

 

[Mashing]

It could have been worse. The bear could have knutted all over them.

 

[Mojovonio]

He's the Michael Madsen of bears.

 

[RSTEIN]

Ok, so a bear who was raised by people, kept in captivity all his life, and forced to endure hundreds of people staring at him all day kills a few fish and people are surprised? Man, I would go psycho too. I'd probably start killing things just for fun.

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Ok, so a bear who was raised by people, kept in captivity all his life, and forced to endure hundreds of people staring at him all day kills a few fish and people are surprised? Man, I would go psycho too. I'd probably start killing things just for fun.

Exactly.

This bear has been raised in captivity all of its life and he instinctively kills fish but doesn't eat them (because he's been overfed and thus isn't hungry) and people get upset?

 

[bjork]

"There has been heated debate about whether cubs rejected by their mothers should be saved or whether nature should be allowed to run its course."

So they would've let the bear die, but the fish dying is bad? gg germany

 

[speculawyer]

Knut is a psycho.

He's a polar bear . . . or as Reese would put it "He's a terminator . . . it is what they do."

 

[Karmacide]

That bear didn't go crazy. That bear went bear.

 

[Hellsing321]

I think the people working at the Zoo have gone psycho,

 

[gofreak]

I read to my Mom the stuff they were saying about Knut (how he would beckon to photogs to take his pic, wail for attention from tourists etc.), and she simply replied that it reminded her of me when I was a baby. So that shut me up

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

I read to my Mom the stuff they were saying about Knut (how he would beckon to photogs to take his pic, wail for attention from tourists etc.), and she simply replied that it reminded her of me when I was a baby. So that shut me up

You're going to go psycho then,

Spoiler

bad news for your mum I guess

.

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

News at 11...

 

[Stoney Mason]

That bear didn't go crazy. That bear went bear.

Pretty much. I tire of all the Knut stories in general...

 

[OatmealMu]

Time to go bust a Knut.

 

[GoutPatrol]

Time to go bust a Knut.

Best pun yet.

 

[EvilMario]

What a load of carp.

I like this.

 

[The Grand Lucifarius]

I've had it with bears, their such fucking animals

 

[RumFore]

Controversy in Germany about killing of fishes by a bear cub you say?

 

[Desperado]

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.