Flocke/Snowflake
Feb. 28th, 2011 06:30 amI saw a rerun yesterday on some German channel about Flocke (i.e. Snowflake), a polar bear born in 2007 at the Nuremberg zoo. Since mum got nervous about 4 weeks after her birth, it was decided that Flocke should be raised by humans -- they'd lost a cub the year before and didn't want to lose yet another one.
I'm totally degenerate and undeserving of the epithet "human", and I know it, but I still think that she's cuter than any human baby. Sorry, mums out there. Comfort yourselves with the thought that I don't have children, so there's no danger of me exchanging them for a polar bear cub.
But she's totally irresistible, isn't she? I'm in love, I think.