Bears Will Be Bears

Polar Bear Bites Berliner's Butt

I don't think it's a false generalization to state that females love cute animals.  I'm not sure whether animals appeal to some primal, maternal desire present in all females or whether, you know, they just like cute animals.

It's fairly harmless.  Nobody ever gets hurt because they love cute animals.  

Except maybe in Berlin, where a grown woman scaled the protective barriers of the polar bear enclosure and got her self bit up.  We usually hear about little kids naively going into animal exhibits or just plain falling in...but never a grown person.

I guess most people think of polar bears as big, cuddly fluffballs.

Even when they're growling they look pretty harmless.

They're not.

Just ask Antarctica's seal population.

The most interesting angle of this story is that Knut, the two-year-old polar bear of moderate renown, was two feet away from the attack.  That Knut can't stay OUT of the news!

The media seems to be in agreement that this was a horrible tragedy and clearly another case of animals attacking, but when you examine what happen, ask yourself what the polar bear did wrong?  If some dumb kraut climbed into my enclosure, I'd bite her ass off, too.