[Rictor]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7336092.stm

Germany's celebrity polar bear Knut has triggered a new controversy by fishing out 10 live carp from his moat and killing them in front of visitors.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine news website reports that Knut "senselessly murdered the carp", fishing them out, playing with them and then leaving the remains.

Double-you-tee-eff. Have we really come so far, as a society, that the notion of a polar beat hunting fish is now repulsive to us? Have we come so far in our quest to impose our stamp of morality on the natural order of things, that one animal killing another is now a moral outrage?

"Senselessly murdered the carp"?! It's a god-damn bear, not a signatory to the Geneva conventions. Maybe we should send the bear for some sensitivity training.

I fear for this world.

[Herra Tohtori]

* Herra Tohtori slaps Knut around with a big trout

* Knut snatches the trout and proceeds to senselessly murder it in front of children

* Trout does not approve


...I agree with Rictor. It is normal behaviour for any juvenile animals to play, and normal for predators to play with their prey.


The question is, what kind of nutjob puts live carps in a pool where a polar bear has access to and expects it to leave them alone? Not that I mind about the carp, they don't really have the brains to handle pain in the sense we know it, but it's just stupid to place them there in the first place.

[Mars]

  

wait...

It's not a joke?

 

[Nuclear1]

Hell the only outrage is that Knut hasn't killed that bastard that made the Knut song.

KNUUUUTTTTTTTT! KNUUUUTTTTTTTT! KLEINER EISBAR AUS DEM---GGRRRRRAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH

[Nuke]

when i was up in anchorage the polar bear at the zoo there ate one of the visitors who was being an asshat and thought it would be cool to break into the enclosure. next day they found a shoe wit h a foot in it. they didn't raise much of a fuss about it. most anyone said about it was "stupid tourists".

[Kosh]

when i was up in anchorage the polar bear at the zoo there ate one of the visitors who was being an asshat and thought it would be cool to break into the enclosure. next day they found a shoe wit h a foot in it. they didn't raise much of a fuss about it. most anyone said about it was "stupid tourists".

Natural selection at its finest.

[Nuke]

indeed

[Hellstryker]

Words cannot discribe the stupidity...

[Dark Hunter]

Critics say Berlin Zoo should not have put live fish inside Knut's enclosure.

An intelligent thought!  

"Senselessly murdering carp"... wow. Just wow. For one thing, I didn't know an animal causing another animal's death was counted as "murder" (isn't that reserved for humans killing humans?), and for another, how in the hell is a bear supposed to understand morality? It's a freaking wild animal, you idiots! Cats almost always play with their prey before finishing it off, and nobody ever bats an eye.

faithInHumanity--;  

[Mars]

I really want someone to tell me this is a joke... please. I'm serious... this can't be true

[watsisname]

I'ma go senselessy murder some beers now, goddamnit.

[Jeff Vader]

How cruel. I demand that the polar bear be sent to court and sentenced to 50 years in jail, in solitary confinement.

I love the western morality. You can easily show people punching, kicking and shooting each other in TV, but if there's even the slightest glimpse of a boobie... Oh My Sweet Merciful Mother****ing God! That is sure to turn children into sick, twisted, ****ed up killing machines.

Oh, there was this one case that I heard of. Someone found a porn movie where all the curse words had been bleeped. Curse words. In porn. What the bloody hell?

I suppose spiders are a menace to society as well, since they act as mass-murderers, capturing and devouring insects. Oh, and little birds as well. They must all die, in the good and honored name of morality.

[karajorma]

I think the claim of murder relates to the fact that he didn't actually eat the fish, merely killed them. But anyone who knows anything at all about animals knows that all young predators do this.

[Rictor]

My cat used to play with birds/mice all the time, and not eat them. I don't think she even realized she was hurting them, but the size discrepancy made it impossible not to. For young animals, its more of a toy than a meal.

[MP-Ryan]

Anyone else thinking they should let Knut loose in the offices of The Frankfurter Allgemeine News service? =P

[Flipside]

Good grief, there's a point where conservation turns into stupidity. It's a ****ing polar bear, not a teddy bear!

[Nuclear1]

Unfortunately the German (well, world) media portrayed Knut just as that: a poor, abandoned teddy bear who needs the world's sympathy.

I personally think the little scamp will never stop being adorable, but he's still an animal who lives on animal instincts and behavior.

[Kie99]

What an absolute cnut.

[Nuke]

you do realize this is an animal thats capable of catching and devouring a beluga whale. if you skimp on his enclosure then its pretty much asking for something to go wrong. if he can get into the carp tank, then he can get out and eat little children.

[Excalibur]

No more Discovery Channel...
No more hunting for trophies...
No more fishing - the fishermen don't eat all the fish they catch - that is senseless murder...

Anyway, who said the bear didn't eat the fish later? He was learning how to catch them, just like anything else.

Wedycewelos.