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March 2008
- Knut to Hit the Silver Screen
  
  Canadian Press | Mar 3, 08 6:30 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Once celebrity polar bear Knut got big and his fluffy fur gained a yellowish-gray tint, public attention turned to younger, cuter bears. But now the spotlight is back on the Berlin Zoo's most famous orphan, with the premiere of a new documentary called Knut and Friends , the Canadian Press reports. More »
February 2008
- Big Cats Are Back at SF Zoo
  
  San Jose Mercury News | Feb 21, 08 5:55 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Seven tigers and lions are back in their outdoor grottoes at the San Francisco Zoo for the first time since a Siberian tiger killed a man on Christmas Day. The pens got a $1.7 million security upgrade after Tatiana escaped and attacked three people. Officials said the enclosure's front wall is now 19 feet high, 3 better than national standards. More »
- Knut's Dad Wants a Piece of the Action
  
  Der Spiegel | Feb 15, 08 2:41 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Knut, the polar bear superstar of the Berlin Zoo, has all the trappings of celebrity—fame, money, a Hollywood deal, and now, family members looking to cash in. The zoo that owns his dad, Lars, says it deserves some of the millions Knut has raked in, Der Spiegel reports. "We are currently looking into what claims we could have," said a spokesman for Neumunster Zoo. More »
- Med Student's Kiss of Life Saves Tiger Cub
  
  Der Spiegel | Feb 3, 08 12:16 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A medical student sprang into action when she spotted a tiger cub choking on a piece of meat at a German zoo—and gave the animal mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, or as Der Speigel reports, "mouth-to-muzzle" CPR. "The little baby tiger was gnawing meat off a bone. All of a sudden he couldn't breathe and lost consciousness," said the student, a 24-year-old mom visiting the zoo with her own baby. More »
January 2008
- Zoo Braces for Snowflake Mania
  
  Der Spiegel | Jan 31, 08 3:21 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Polar celebrity Snowflake will meet her adoring public as early as late March, and Nuremberg zoo staff predict a blizzard of attention surrounding its most popular bundle of fur. Annual visitors are expected to jump from 250,000 to 1.3 million, reports Der Spiegel , which has the city readying itself by speeding up public transportation to the zoo. More »
- Vienna's Baby Panda Says Hello
  
  Associated Press | Jan 31, 08 9:03 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Vienna's newest celebrity made his debut yesterday as the 5-month-old panda Fu Long met the public for the first time. The Austrian capital's Schönbrunn Zoo had to issue a statement to anxious panda fans that the cloistered cub was healthy and growing strong. Only yesterday afternoon did Fu Long emerge to an adoring crowd, although the zoo's director told the AP that the panda is more of "a night owl." More »
- Zoo Leopards Find New Home at Preserve
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jan 26, 08 6:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Brother-sister pair Sirius and Pitou grew up in a French traveling circus, spent the last nine years at the Monaco zoo, and have now found a new home at a wildlife preserve in South Africa. The 16-year-old leopards undertook their recent journey—sedated and via two airplanes—thanks to British actress and conservationist Virginia McKenna, the Telegraph reports. More »
- 911 Calls Reveal Terror of Tiger Attack
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Jan 15, 08 6:30 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Police today released 911 transcripts related to the recent tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo that reveal the terror and frustration of a young man frantic to get help for his injured brother, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. "How long does it take?" pleaded Kulbir Dhaliwal. The dispatcher repeatedly tells him that paramedics can't enter the zoo with the tiger still loose. More »
- Cute, or Miserable and Crazy?
  
  Der Spiegel | Jan 15, 08 11:20 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Nuremberg zoo's new polar bear cub, cute as she is, is highlighting the sometimes stark and brutal condition the animals face in captivity. Some biologists say the decision to bottle-feed the cub after her mother rejected her—as was done with superstar bear Knut—will only produce "a second psychopath," a bear dependent on humans and clueless about how to interact with her own species. More »
- New Cub Could Out-Cute Knut
  
  Der Spiegel | Jan 14, 08 1:50 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - There’s a new polar bear in Germany, and Knut had better watch his back, reports Der Spiegel , because the Nuremberg zoo’s 2.4-kilo baby bruin is drawing international attention for being so gosh darn cute. Fans have sent 15,000 name suggestions since Friday, but for now she’s called “Flocke,” German for "snowflake." More »
- Zoo Will Raise Polar Bear Cub After All
  
  Der Spiegel | Jan 9, 08 9:17 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Nuremberg Zoo has reversed its wildly unpopular policy against hand-rearing polar bear cubs, reports Der Speigel . The zoo took the remaining cub away from its mother yesterday after she appeared nervous and started walking around her enclosure with the tiny animal in her mouth. Two other cubs died and were apparently eaten by their mother earlier this week, after the zoo refused to intervene. More »
- Lawyer: Tiger Area Couldn't Hold a Tabby
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Jan 8, 08 10:20 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The lawyer for two brothers mauled in the Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has gone on the attack, the Chronicle reports. Mark Geragos yesterday slammed the zoo's "character assassination" of the brothers, claiming an employee warned the zoo that the moat around the tiger grotto "couldn't hold a house cat." More »
- Zoo: Polar Bear Cubs Gone, Eaten by Mom
  
  Der Spiegel | Jan 8, 08 9:15 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Two polar bear cubs that captured Germany's attention have died, and the zoo thinks their mother ate them, Der Spiegel reports. The Nuremberg Zoo's decision not to interfere with the cubs' survival, despite reports that the mother might have been neglecting them, caused a storm of criticism, which is now likely to intensify. Zoo officials speculated that the cubs may have died from disease, saying in a statement, "We assume that Vilma took excellent care of her cubs until the end." More »
- Zoo Will Let Polar Cubs Die, Rather Than Raise by Hand
  
  Der Spiegel | Jan 6, 08 6:06 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Officials at a Nuremburg zoo have vowed not to rescue the cubs of two polar bears who gave birth about a month ago, even though one is showing signs of disinterest in her offspring, leaving them to cry plaintively for long periods of time. Zoo officials say they don't want to replicate "Knutomania"—the public obsession with Berlin's celebrity polar bear orphan, reports Der Spiegel , and will let the cubs die rather than intervene. More »
- SF Tiger Attack Survivors Made Silence Pact
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Jan 5, 08 9:14 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - In the ambulance to the hospital just after a tiger mauled 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. to death, paramedics heard Sousa's two friends make a pact of silence about "what we did," the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The two brothers, accused by one witness of taunting the tiger before the attack, have since refused to let police search their car, cell phone records, and photos. More »
- Tiger Survivors' Lawyer Ready to Pounce
  
  ABC News | Jan 2, 08 4:05 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Two brothers who survived an attack from an escaped tiger at San Francisco Zoo have hired hotshot lawyer Mark Geragos, ABC News reports. Geragos, whose high-profile clients have included Michael Jackson and wife-killer Scott Peterson, seems to be getting ready to give the zoo a mauling with a major lawsuit. "There are some very disturbing facts yet to come out," he said. More »
December 2007
- Knut Goes Hollywood
  
  Der Spiegel | Dec 31, 07 10:34 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Berlin Zoo is about to make even more money off Knut, the once-adorable and now rather large polar bear cub raised by keepers from infancy after his mother rejected him. Hollywood is hoping to make an animated movie about Knut and his keeper Thomas Dörflein, and is ready to dole out $5 million (3.5 million euros) for the rights, Der Spiegel reports. More »
- SF Zoo Boss Comes Under Fire
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Dec 31, 07 5:02 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The tiger escape that resulted in the death of a teenage boy at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas Day has unleashed a rash of staff complaints about long-term mismanagement of the institution by director Manuel Mollinedo, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Employees are leaving in droves, animals are dying, and zookeepers are being injured by their charges, workers point out. More »
- Police Logs Detail Chaotic Response to Escaped Tiger
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Dec 29, 07 10:30 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The first chaot