Germany has another Knut, but this time it's a girl, and her name is Flocke!!! :)

[Kirsten]

Glad to see they've come to their senses at last

Yes, in the beginning, they refused to handraise the cubs, if they did, two more lives could have been spared...

On the other hand, it's said it's almost impossible to integrate a hand-raised polar bear into a group of other polar bears later, and it will be problematic to find a place for them. That's what they wanted to avoid, so they left them with their mothers. Unfortunately, two cubs lost their lives.

For this little girl, I heard they are looking for another bear cub to raise them together, so they can learn some "bear behaviour" from each other.

Kirsten

[Sonia59]

I have seen it yesterday to the news, but I did not know there were other cubs that died

Well, the baby is very cute! It is amazing to see how small the newborns are, compared to the mother's size.

[phesina]

How sweet that tiny baby is!

[shepgirl]

What a cute little fleece ball.

[lvpets2002]

WoW just too Cute & Adorable for words..

[Barbara]

Before we act to harsh on the zoo: they said in the beginning that of course the best way to raise a polar bear is to have him raised by his mom- they just weren't sure that under the zoo conditions the moms would know how to to do it.
Handraising is even more of a risk than leaving them with their moms (small animals get their immunity against infections with the milk from their mom and are extremely in danger of dying from the slightest infection when they are handraised) - so it was a last resort and of course we all will hope that little Flocke (as in snow-flake) survives I saw a video this morning and she is just the cutest thing ever.