Knut the polar bear (aka “K-Nut” aka “Groß Pelz”), celebrated his one year birthday yesterday. Of course, most of you don’t need any further introduction to this adorable animal, but for those of you who don’t know, he’s the ursine sensation out of the Berlin Zoo that took the world by storm. (And made the Berlin Zoo a cool $14mil in ticket sales, licensing, etc. He’s basically the LeBron James of polar bears.) All of this… just because he was just so cute!
Behold the synapse-collapsing preciousness:
OMG! OMGZZZZZZZZZZ!
And then there’s today’s Knut:
Well, maybe not AS cute, but that bear has some personality. Look how he is about to hit something with his enormous bear paw!
Anyway, I’ll always feel a special affinity for this bear, even though I’ll never meet him. Why? Well, I’ve always thought of the polar bear as my spirit animal or totem or familiar or whatever. (Although once, an ex-girlfriend of mine reported that all her men have said this and I felt really dirty — like a “type”. Blech. And this has nothing to do with the whole His Dark Materials series of books.) So there’s that. Plus, he clearly craves a lot of attention. I do that too! And lastly, he’s German. I’m German too. Kinda. Go Germany!
So yeah, that’s the world’s most famous polar bear. You know you love it.
December 6, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Looks like he could use another bleaching.
December 6, 2007 at 5:53 pm
you and him should go find a golden compass together.
December 6, 2007 at 7:52 pm
just wanted to say, god bless you for not censoring your comments section. i know certain other bloggers who apparently take pleasure in censoring anyone who’s not boring. and no, there was no swearing whatsoever in my comment.
March 30, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I am an animal lover and my passion towards bears go beyond words! I look at “Knut” pictures every single day… he is simply a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e!
I wish we, human beings, could learn to love and to respect the nature as a part of us, but we have a long way to go as we can hardly respect ourselves…
With all my love for the nature and its creator,
Cybeles