Vera's cub in German zoo to be bottle-fed · 2008-01-10 15:10
A German zoo has agreed to hand rear a polar bear cub because of fears that its mother might harm it.
The decision came after the mother bear, Vera, was filmed carrying her cub in her jaws around her enclosure at Nuremberg Zoo.
It also came amid fears that another polar bear at the zoo, Vilma, has eaten her two newborn cubs, BBC reports.
Zookeepers had initially decided not to disturb Vera and Vilma's cubs, even if the mothers rejected them.
But they announced on Tuesday that they would begin bottle-feeding Vera's cub.
The zoo has said it wants to avoid any repetition of "Knut mania", a popular craze triggered by a hand-reared bear cub at Berlin Zoo last year.
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