Kudos to the Berlin Zoo for standing by their three-month old polar bear cub named Knut, ignorning demands by "animal rights" campaigner Frank Albrecht that the animal be allowed to die after being rejected by its mother.Albrecht:
Hand-rearing a polar bear is not appropriate and is a serious violation of animal rights. In fact, the cub should have been killed.Uhhh...fuck him!
Knut's mother Tosca - formerly a performing animal in an East German zoo - rejected Knut and his twin brother shortly after their birth. The twin died but Knut was "adopted" by zookeeper Thomas Doerflein.
The polar bear is bottle-fed, washed and cuddled by his adoptive father, who moved in to the zoo to sleep in a bed by the bear's crate. Newspapers report that Doerflein also plays him Elvis songs on the guitar and gave him Christmas presents.
Knut was never going to be let into the wild, so what's the harm? Maybe I'm guilty of being a softy - aww, hell, I'm guilty of having a heart, but it seems to me the zookeeper's intervention was the humane thing to do.
