You'd think that zoo keepers would be a little bit better informed about the risks that they face from the animals in their charge really. But apparently not : The director of the Berlin Zoo made famous by the polar bear cub Knut has had his finger bitten off by a chimpanzee called Pedro. Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, 55, was feeding Pedro walnuts as he showed a visitor round the zoo Monday when the ape...
Baby tiger born prematurely, taken in by zoo director 08-Jun 08:29 For Information About White Tigers Visit: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/whitetigers.htm Germany's Aschersleben Zoo is home to more than 100 animal species, but the flavour of the month is a two month-old white tiger cub. The cub has been making its debut appearance at the zoo this week. The cuddly animal which owes its striped...
berlinnbsp the zoo keeper who raised germanys famous polar bear cub knut by bottle was found dead monday in his berlin apartmenta police spokesman thomas doerflein 44 appeared to have died of natural causesthere was no reason to suspect suicide or foul play he saiddorflein raised knut by bottle after the cub and his twin brotherwere rejected by their mother when they were just days oldknut weighed...
First there was Knut, the adorable polar bear rejected by its mother in the Berlin Zoo. Now, another mother at Germany's Stroehen Zoo wants nothing to do with her new tiger cub, only this time, instead of zoo employees coming...
Filed under: Europe , Germany There must be something in the water at many of Germany's zoos that cause mothers in captivity to reject their newborn young. First we had Knut , and then Flocke, both polar bear cubs abandoned by their mothers and raised by zookeepers. Now we have a newborn tiger cub at Germany's Stroehen Zoo, born last weekend and rejected by its mother. The cub is being nursed by a...
Always remembering that our blog descriptor is "Money Matters" we have this, from Earth Times: Courtroom wranglings over price of famous Berlin polar bear Knut Berlin's famous zoo resident, Knut the polar bear, was the subject of financial wranglings Tuesday, as zoo chiefs tried to agree on the sale of the bear from Neumuenster Zoo to Berlin Zoo, where he was born and gained worldwide fame....
Two German zoos have gone to court over revenues generated from a cuddly polar bear cub named Knut who became a global superstar and serious moneyspinner after being rejected by his mother.
German zoos fight over rights to bear who has earned millions in revenue and merchandising A Berlin judge today ordered two leading German zoos to resolve their dispute over who owns the rights to Knut, the headline-grabbing polar bear. Knut is at the centre of a custody battle between the zoo where he lives and the zoo that legally owns him. Both claim they have a right to a share in the millions...
BERLIN -- A German court has told the Berlin and Neumuenster zoos to settle a price dispute over Knut, the polar bear who took the world spotlight as a fuzzy white fluffball.
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