News: Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Is Dead

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Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Is Dead

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Knut, the polar bear star of Berlin Zoo, is dead. The zoo announced Saturday that Knut had collapsed and died in his enclosure. The cause of death is currently unclear.
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Berlin Zoo's celebrity polar bear Knut is dead. The zoo's bear expert, Heiner Klös told the German news agency DPA that the bear collapsed and died on Saturday while in the water in the zoo's polar bear enclosure.

Klös told DPA that between 600 and 700 visitors had witnessed Knut's death. The zoo's staff were shocked, he said.

The cause of death is currently unclear. According to Klös, the polar bear was alone in the compound at the time. The three other bears that shared his enclosure -- his mother Tosca and two other bears named Katyusha and Nancy -- had already been shut in. The zoo plans to perform an autopsy on Knut to clarify the cause of death.

"It's terrible," Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit told the Berlin newspaper BZ. "He had a special place in all of our hearts. He was the star of Berlin Zoo."

Knut, who recently turned four, became world famous when his mother rejected him shortly after his birth in December 2006. Part of his fame was due to the bear's close relationship to Thomas Dörflein, the photogenic zookeeper who became his replacement mother and hand-reared the cub. Dörflein died unexpectedly in September 2008 at the age of 44.

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Knut, who recently turned four, became world famous when his mother rejected him shortly after his birth in December 2006.

I remember this...

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oh no

RIP!!!

Gui Blackout

Baby Knut? NOOOO!!!

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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

R.I.P.

Daddy

People here in Berlin are VERY sad today.

He was some kind of mascot for us. Something special and we truly loved him.

First his best friend/father Mr. Dörflein...and now Knut. Hope they found back together up there...What a dream-team.

R.I.P Knut

Allstar

That's so sad.

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Originally posted by Lily Gaga

People here in Berlin are VERY sad today.

He was some kind of mascot for us. Something special and we truly loved him.

First his best friend/father Mr. Dörflein...and now Knut. Hope they found back together up there...What a dream-team.

R.I.P Knut

I was thinking maybe the poor bear died cause of loneliness after the guy who took care of him when he got rejected by his mom died. I don't think polar bears has that short life span so I guess that's why he died. Most of the pics when he got big after his caretaker's death, he looked so sad... You can tell Knut was happy with the zoologist while he was growing up...

Their life story reminded me of Hachikō's story..

BTrisc

This is so sad.

DrogoBrush

Damn that is so saddening.

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