Flocke makes public debut

by Meg on April 8, 2008

Flocke made her public debut today at the Nuremberg Zoo. She jumped right on in (Check out entire vid on CNN…)

Flockie

Welcome to the outside world, Flockie. Great update!

{ 32 comments }

1 bookmonstercats 04.08.08 at 5:05 pm

…but please don’t get all fats like Knut!!!

2 ArrrArrr 04.08.08 at 5:08 pm

Flocke is a little girl. :D

3 kiliri0 04.08.08 at 5:09 pm

Flocke is a girl bear…

4 Fransouah 04.08.08 at 5:17 pm

‘grats, Flockette!

5 berthaslave 04.08.08 at 5:23 pm

Lieber Flocke!!!!

Best part: Bear-paddling to the edge, and then nom-nomming the well-made German shoes!

6 jake 04.08.08 at 5:33 pm

Wow! That’s a bad habit to encourage (or at least accept) in a little girl who’ll top out at several hundred pounds when she’s full grown. *I* wouldn’t want a polar bear nomming on my toes.
OTOH, I’d love to have a bebeh polar bear chasing the waterfall in my back yard.
Too cutes!

7 debg 04.08.08 at 5:41 pm

She’s gotten so big! She looks older than Knut at his first public viewing. What a gorgeous girl. Did you see the zookeeper PET her? I’m very jealous and incoherent.

8 Katrina 04.08.08 at 5:47 pm

I can’t see her-the screen goes black.

Ich bin sad.

9 Pat 04.08.08 at 6:12 pm

What a cutie!!! She wins the stubbular tailio of the day award!!!!

10 Meri 04.08.08 at 6:15 pm

pleeeease, change it! she’s a girl! >.<

11 sunnymum 04.08.08 at 6:15 pm

Awwwwww, such a furwy debutante! Flocke you are tewtally awesomely qte – we wuv u!!!! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE! My heart skipped when I saw the zookeeper scritch and pet Flocke – LUCKY!!!!!!!!

12 Christina 04.08.08 at 6:16 pm

HER! FLOCKE IS A SHE :D
(Flocke means flake, coming from “snow flake” which refers to her being…well, a polar bear. A white polar bear. And Flocke kind of sounds…female.)

She’s pretty cute, tomorrow they’ll let visitors visit her. YAY FOR GERMANY!

I wonder when Wilbär will have his

Ich liebe Deutschland, mein tolles, tolles Heimatland! Juhu 8D

13 Budgie Blogger 04.08.08 at 6:22 pm

Ich liebe Flocke!

14 Helena 04.08.08 at 6:29 pm

Dammit, I’m so sick of all the icebear hype here in Germany! You can’t watch the news without something about some ohmeingottistdasschnuffischnuffischnuffig thing that one of those blasted bears did.
They might be cute, but so what?? My hamster is all sorts of cute and nobody wants to see him on the Tagesschau. And he will still be cute in a year!
They even made a stupid movie about bears, called it “Knut und seine Freunde” (Knut and friends), had some footage of Knut at the beginning and then some stuff about some other bears they dug up.

SICK OF IT!

Sorry, needed to vent…

15 Ava Cartier 04.08.08 at 6:53 pm

Polar bars r00l!

It’s been amazing watching Flocke and Knut grow up. I think they’re saying now Knut is lonely. I feel bad for the poor guy.

16 Holy Cuteness 04.08.08 at 7:13 pm

Allright Flocke, you rock girl! :-P

17 Tiara 04.08.08 at 7:15 pm

Helena, I want to see your hamster on the Tagesschau. Really, I do :)

18 Meri 04.08.08 at 7:58 pm

@Helena, I agree with Tiara, we need more cute on the Tagesschau. And I still like Knut somehow, even after he killed those poor fish who were only cleaning^^

19 peachfish 04.08.08 at 8:28 pm

Aww. I loved the Nuremberg zoo when I visited it (in 1993 or so I think). They had great spaces for their animals and free-roaming marmots!

20 claudia 04.08.08 at 8:47 pm

Go Flocke! These are simply beautiful animals.

21 secretlyindian 04.08.08 at 9:18 pm

If Knute is lonely can’t they introduce these two? Sort of a polar bear dating service.

22 Lil 04.09.08 at 4:39 am

AW! knut can has a girlfriend?

23 kittymom 04.09.08 at 4:53 am

@ Helena, deep breath, my dear…. Your hammy is darling, precious and perfect so post him/her on CO, pleeeeeeease! In the meantime, don’t dis the polars, they have a certain amount of cachet too…

24 Hon Glad 04.09.08 at 5:44 am

Flocke’s dive, the Flocke flop.

25 NYCGirl 04.09.08 at 6:38 am

<3

26 acelightning 04.09.08 at 9:59 am

Oh, she’s growing so fast! No more little fluffball – she’s beginning to look like a proper bear. Still beautiful, of course, and much loved by her human caregivers (and the rest of the world).

27 Susan 04.09.08 at 1:32 pm

Love the little guy! My dog has a little white chew bear we named Flocke, in honor of our fave.

28 Kris 04.09.08 at 1:59 pm

Flocke looks a bit overwhelmed at her new digs, but you know, if she needs company, I’ll volunteer to come and play with her…you know, until she’s strong enough to kill me and eat me for lunch.

29 blair 04.09.08 at 2:28 pm

“ohmeingottistdasschnuffischnuffischnuffig “

you know, i kinda knew that texting in german wouldn’t be as easy as english

tnx 4d confo

30 Hyura 04.09.08 at 4:26 pm

she looks happy. but it still makes me sad she has no mommy.

31 Tricia 04.09.08 at 6:59 pm

I wish the zookeeper hadn’t gotten in the way when she leaped into the water, that was soo cute. I want a better view! :)

32 Aeris 04.10.08 at 1:03 pm

What I dislike about this whole Flocke thing is that a) the Zoo said they didn’t want to make a money machine out of her
b) which they currently try to do almost worse than with Knut, believe me, there will be a flocke-movie, just look at that big fat camera)
c) Knut was way cuter because of the whole interaction with Doerflein. I mean look at that video, apart from the petting in the beginning they kept walking away from her rather than interacting.

So I don’t like he Flocke-Hype.

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