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| Knut the polar bear eats fish; all of Germany shocked! |
| 2008-04-10 |
| Germany's celebrity polar bear Knut has triggered a new controversy by fishing out 10 live carp from his moat and killing them in front of visitors. Critics say Berlin Zoo should not have put live fish inside Knut's enclosure. "You know, predators, prey . . . bad combination." "But we raised him as a vegan!" German media report that the carp were put there to eat up algae. . . . And is anyone getting upset at the millions of little defenseless single-celled organisms the carp were slaughtering? And why not? The Frankfurter Allgemeine news website reports that Knut "senselessly murdered the carp", fishing them out, playing with them and then leaving the remains. No, it was perfectly sensible. Knut looked at the fish, and his little bear brain said, "Groceries!" |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #18 Now if they were nicer and just ate grass they would be OK. Grass eaters. Sound like one of my primary food groups. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-04-10 18:50 |
| #17 They're Libruls, libruls can't think. They only feeeeeel! The predators can take care of themselves in any case, obviously. Even if caged. And even then, they do what they do because they are mean and have no right to live. Now if they were nicer and just ate grass they would be OK. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-04-10 18:33 |
| #16 What do they think Polar Bears eat in the arctic? Cokes and Christmas cookies. Like in the commercials. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-10 13:54 |
| #15 And when o'Knut becomes big enough he can dine on 'the critics'. :) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-04-10 13:51 |
| #14 What do they think Polar Bears eat in the arctic? They're Libruls, libruls can't think. They only feeeeeel! |
| Posted by: Craiger Jones9627 2008-04-10 13:35 |
| #13 reality is a b**** for the dreamers. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-10 13:04 |
| #12 Could have been worse, there could have been seals in the moat. The psycho bear meme really annoys me. The bear was raised as a human and then isolated/abandoned when he got a little too big to be cute. Can you imagine the effect on a 2 -3 year old child to have everyone he cared about suddenly abandon him? The German media is just as brain-dead as ours. |
| Posted by: RWV 2008-04-10 12:36 |
| #11 Bear: seize the day |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-04-10 12:09 |
| #10 I think the neocons are behind this. Just read the comments, there is a bias against carp. Damn, is nothing sacred anymore ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2008-04-10 11:18 |
| #9 I just can't believe Germans, of all folks, are reacting this way. Animals react on INSTINCT folks. Only humans (at least, most humans) react based upon logical thought processes. Of course, as Phil b states, I don't blame Knut at all for *not* eating those nasty fish. |
| Posted by: BA 2008-04-10 11:00 |
| #8 Geez, it's enough to make ya root for Global Warming, isn't it? Ungrateful polar bear bastid! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-10 11:00 |
| #7 Our first pet cat located an entire nest of baby weasels. That was a bad night, but I didn't take it out on the cat. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2008-04-10 10:50 |
| #6 Knut "senselessly murdered the carp" What the f*ck is wrong with these people? EUros are further gone than I thought. |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-04-10 10:03 |
| #5 Carp are ucky. Next time, send sealsicles, bitte. |
| Posted by: Knut 2008-04-10 10:03 |
| #4 Poor bear didn't have a monther to remind him about cleaning his plate and the starvation in the 3rd world. |
| Posted by: Bob Pheater3938 2008-04-10 09:58 |
| #3 Carp taste like mud. I'm not surprised he didn't eat them. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-04-10 09:53 |
| #2 Hmph. Ev'ry one knows all the fish in the Arctic come from Arthur Treacher's, with a side of hush puppies and slaw. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-04-10 09:26 |
| #1 What do they think Polar Bears eat in the arctic? While they are floating around on chunks of ice in the WATER! It aint turnips. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-04-10 08:35 |