How much more can a polar bear?
GERMANY’S celebrity polar bear Knut has become so addicted to the limelight that he throws tantrums when he is denied an audience, according to one of his keepers. Berlin Zoo’s Markus Roebke says Knut howls with anger when he feels like he is not getting enough attention. “Knut must go and the sooner the better,” he said. The keeper said the bear would be better off in an animal park away from crowds of adoring fans. And another German zoologist, Peter Arras, has described Knut as a “psychopath”. “Knut is a problem bear who has become addicted to human beings,” he said. Knut was born in December 2006 and attracted worldwide attention after his mother rejected him early last year. Animal activists said at the time he should have been put down, but zoo staff decided to hand-raise him, despite a raging debate about the ethics of doing so. The world fell in love with the ball of fur. Soon after he went on public display at Berlin Zoo, he was attracting 15,000 people every day and generatin
