Knut with his zoo keeper Thomas Doerflein
Knut with his zoo keeper Thomas Doerflein
Knut with his zoo keeper Thomas Doerflein
Knut with his zoo keeper Thomas Doerflein
Little Knut
Knut the poser was a favorite of the media and Zoo
A grown up Knut
Knut, the famous polar bear of the Berlin Zoo is died yesterday. He became an international star when his mother abandoned him and he was raised by his Berlin zoo keeper.
Knut was only four years old and the cause of his death has not been revealed. He was the first bear to be born in captivity in the zoo for 30 years. The first time media saw him was in 2007 and he became a major attraction for media and animal lovers.
He became a star over night when an animal activist said he should have been put down after he and his brother (who died later) were rejected by their mother following their birth in December, 2006. He was so popular that he ended up generating millions of dollars for the Berlin Zoo.
Thomas Doerflein took care of little Knut from the beginning when he bottle fed him and played Elvis Presley's songs for him. Thomas died of a heart attack in 2008. Knut was kept with his mother - Tosca and two other females - Nancy and Katjuscha later on.
He never really had any romantic relationships with them. In fact, there were cases of violent maulings when Katjuscha once tried to bite him.
Anyhow, Knut was rather young to have died. He seemed very cute in all his pics! I wish I could have seen him live. The Berlin Zoo will miss him dearly looking at the way they took care of him, he seemed like a real favorite.
