“Hand-feeding is not appropriate to the species and is a grave violation of the animal protection laws,” said Frank Albrecht, an animal rights campaigner. “Legally speaking, the zoo should kill the baby bear. Otherwise it is condemning the bear to a dysfunctional life and that too is a breach of the law.”
– spotted in timesonline by Dizzy
Words fail
knut the polar bear cub is the cutest thing in the world.
Can we have a picture please?
More seriously. Albrecht’s point is essentially that if Knut is hand-reared then he may have difficulties hanging with other polar bears which is nonsense because the polar bear is essentially solitary.
The version of this I read was even more bizarrely worded/translated and had Herr Albrecht saying something like it was “interspecially unacceptable” which sounds more like he was reffering to bestiality.
Now I have seen somebody fuck a polar bear cub but the culprit was a Canadian and this was long ago and we were all very, very drunk.
Can’t they just dump a large amount of live fish into the poor bear’s pool? Or would that be infringing upon the civil rights of a large number of herring?
Uhm.
Using this logic, we should kill all animals in every zoo, because none of them get their food ina natural manner.
As long as it’s legal!
Germans just love their rules.
@David A.
No, we love to avoid thinking for ourselves.
I guess it is the same problem in the UK. We just cope differently, I guess.
Wouldn’t the lesser evil be to sell the cub to a private zoo and then use the funds to save more polar bears? Killing it seems to be baby/bathwater stuff.
The man’s a complete and utter knut.
We had to kill the bear in order to save it?
For the greater good!
First they came for the dysfunctional polar bears…
Just John, you got me laughing with the truth of that. I think they are hypocrits when they oppose animal testing because what they are really doing in cases like this is testing social policy on animals first.
Just basic Lefty Logic.