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Originally Posted by grantsmb
Only a Newspaper could suggest that the female Panda died from neglect due to the interest in the baby Polar Bear 'Knut'
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Indeed, rubbish
She died of a intestine-blockage. Weither or not this was due to worn-down molars (because of age) i don't know.
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Originally Posted by grantsmb
Why was it suggested at 'Knut' should be destroyed anyway?
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Naturalists suggested that because he is being hand-reared (due to mother's neglect) he could never have a normal polar-bear's life and therefore he'd be better off dead...
Remarkable to me, because polar bear's (and especially males) are as far as i know solitairy animals anyways. It's not that you can't keep him with other polar-bears because he doesn't know the social structure, you can't keep him with others because he'd kill them...
I also heared about bears becoming very human-orientated which is not a very good thing for zoo animals (begging for food, for instance), but i never heared of bears being totally unable to breed or keep with other animals from their species due to lack of social training by their mother... Perhaps anyone else would have examples?
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