Activist to zoo: Wrong to save baby polar bear

Comments fuel debate over whether humans should raise abandoned cub":


BERLIN - Berlin Zoo's abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but an animal rights activist insists it was wrong to intervene and save the cub.

"Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws," animal rights activist Frank Albrecht was quoted as saying by the mass-circulation Bild daily, which has featured regular photo spreads tracking fuzzy Knut's frolicking.

"The zoo must kill the bear."

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Freaking Crack head. Activist..Wrong thing to say..In relation, and yes in my opinion it is relevant, if their animal was ill would they take them to the vet or let him die. No, no NO lie's here. They'd rush right to the vet. It's the same thing, in my opinion. Saving an animal is saving an animal. Sometimes intervention comes in different forms. Activist Albrecht goes on to say ""If a polar bear mother rejected the baby, then I believe the zoo must follow the instincts of nature," Albrecht said. "In the wild, it would have been left to die." True, there again maybe not. How many times has it been seen over and over again that another animal same or different species takes on the care of another's young. Many times.

The German animal rights organization "Four Paws" argued along similar lines, saying it would not be right to punish the cub for a bad decision made by the zoo.**They're what going to send him to a corner?**

Other activists have also argued that current treatment of the cub is inhumane and could lead to future difficulties interacting with fellow polar bears.**SAVING this cub is INHUMANE? Really..I see it as very humane**.

"They cannot domesticate a wild animal," Ruediger Schmiedel, head of the Foundation for Bears, told Der Spiegel weekly in its Monday edition.**They can't huh? Hmmm, cats, dogs, birds, Horses. Any OTHER STUPID ASS COMMENTS? The human race has been domesticating almost anything wild for many and many of thousands of years.

Who domesticates men? WOMEN..Who domesticates women? MEN. Polar bears live alone in the wild, the cub may very well have survived, but unfortunately his mother died. Which is why she abandoned them. HELLO..."Polar bears are under threat of extinction, and if we feed the bear with a bottle, it has a good chance of growing up and perhaps becoming attractive as a stud for other zoos," Schuele said.

This is insanely ridiculous..I think he, Albrecht should be wrapped up tightly in a form of meat and feed to the cub for survival. Moron.