Ahh. Watched the video that’s linked. For those of you who can’t view it, here’s a rundown on the important bits:
PAWS – up
TONGUE – out
BABY BEAR – tiredy and fallin’ asleep
So cuh yoot!

Should be Do(s) Knut, eh? The powdered sugar kind.

Also, the zoo’s must do all they can to make the location as accomodating as possible so the bears feel totally at home. Otherwise, why have them at all? I can’t go to zoos anymore anyway. Too sad. I’d rather watch them on TV in their natural habitat and pay money to preserve that than support the zoos.

Po’ bebbeh beoi. I will hug her an’ cuddle her an’ make her feeoiw all safe and snuggley!

It’s actually the Nuernberger Zoo and yes, it should be “Knut Zwei” – and he is adorable

Lots of animals can kill/eat/reabsorb (that last one I saw on an Animal Planet episode and was creeped out for a week. REABSORB!) their young, either out of rejection (for whatever reason) or stress due to a predator or danger. It’s more common than we’d think, yet many animals in captivity bear and rear their young without a problem.

and i just wanted to add that moms in the wild do this as well.

people think zoos are cruel but often do not stop and think of what the infant mortality rate is in the wild. it is 50% in some cases.

typically when moms do that it is because there is something wrong with the babies even though to us physically it may not appear so.

he’s cute but PETA will turn the situation into another media circus i’m sure

Awww, gotta love that paws up/yawning action at the end of the video.

I was just about to send this in! Drats – foiled again!

But bebeh polar bearzitude!!! Eeee AND squeeee!

This sweet bebeh made all the way to the front page of cnn.com! I was hoping he’d make it here too! I love those hands that come down from heaven as soon as he starts crying – to scoop him up and give him milkinks! nahm, nahm, nahm…