And that would be that unless this polar bear on the cover of Vanity Fair (along with Leonardo DiCaprio), has a fan club in Japan and followers in Fiji, and was the most famous four-legged inhabitants of this city and the most prestigious polar bear in the world.
We're talking polar bear Knut, the Berlin Zoo hand feeding.
"If someone in your family dies, I think that you do not want him filled in a Museum," said Jochen Kolbe, 31, who leads a protest movement that block planned taxidermy. "Knut is not only a polar bear for people, he is a friend, a family member."
Now, before you convert judgments hold. The nemesis of the anti-stuffing lot is the zoo's Director, Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, a man, whose Zoo marketed this bear from birth, made millions off their presence, plush of Knuts for almost $30 and sold Knut baby videos for the same, and even "Knut" as a trade mark registered. Now, says Mr. Blaszkiewitz, he is shocked, how much people feel for this animal, who suddenly died at the age of 4 1/2 last month.
"The problem is people take their human feelings and put them in animals,", he said expressions of amazement at all the "silly gifts", the mourners in the Zoo have deposited, i.e. the candles and flowers and posters.
It seems easy to put fun on both sides, which has fascinated this city in a time of political uncertainty in the nation and tragic insecurity around the world in a conflict. And this is what many people here, from headlines with a mocking tone (mostly the anti-stuffing amount to the), snide you need a life online comments about people (Yes, especially target the opponent,) to harsh comments about the Director of the Zoo (in comparison to a dictator by Mr Kolbe) have done.
But the struggle to remain Knut is a simple reminder, the application of the formula of relatively important to contradictions, which is meaningless by the conflict touches. This can not Japan or in the Middle East, but loss feels still like loss. This is the message of the women on the bench at the polar bear enclosure at the Zoo, which with buttons, which forever read "Knut."
"I don't want to see him filled," said Dittrich Triste, her eyes moist as they color of snapshots of Knut, passed around as if publication of photos of grandchildren. "I want him in my head on life when he was in, when he was alive."
Doris Webb was on the next bench, their weapons against an afternoon chill and crossed a reporter of the issue. "Want to make fun of us?" she asked their Knut button proudly, their chest pinned.
"There are a lot of people who say, 'How you to can be excited if so many people in Japan died?', what do you know about how I about what happened in Japan feel?" "I'm grieving about a very special bear."
To start at the beginning (say: Newt) Knut was a cloud of smoke cotton born a creature in the Berlin Zoo on 5 Dec. 2006. His mother would have the Cub or his brother. The zookeeper drew the two out of the case, and it was the first controversy. Animal rights groups against allowing the Cubs to be raised by people. They said keepers should die they to leave.
But the image of a helpless ball of fluff generates an outbreak. The brother died, but the keeper, Thomas D?rflein, Knut fed with 24-hour care and bottles of baby formula and cod liver oil.
The world was just.
In the spring of 2007, the Zoo his celebrity was introduced residence in what dubbed "Knut day," inviting 400 journalists from around the world. Met the Knut started phenomenon, much to the delight of a Zoo, which saw their revenues all-time-high, the year and its presence increased.
Each birthday was marked with a fish and shrimp cakes.
Mrs. Webb, said that if she and her husband retired, it almost every day the Zoo and immeasurable joy found in just Knut for hours at a time.
Apparently has a lot of people.
"The connection between man and the bear, this was something very special," said Ergün Oezmen, a young man sitting on the bench in the vicinity of Mrs. Webb.
The Knut history was also marked by tragedy, abstimmender more for those in drawn. The bear trainer, Mr. Doerflein, a minor celebrity in his own right, died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 44 in September 2008. Knut died just as suddenly on a Saturday in the last month. Standing on a rock, he turned in circles, had a seizure, then fell into the water, where he died.
"The problem is after the death of Knut is the overwhelming feelings, was", the Director, Mr Blaszkiewitz said. "While the OK for the people is, in my opinion it is not OK for animals."
This attitude is what generated opposition.
"We all met in Facebook, saw we all, that we will be filled the same interest against Knut had," said Mr Kolbe, a model for the Organization describe now the same for large and small conflicts of the world over. "We are planning a demonstration at the Zoo".
About 100 protesters showed up, including Mrs. Webb and the other women on the bench. Although not everyone agreed to everything, she agree all the filling must be stopped by Knut.
"People want not Knut in a Museum, but what the Zoo Director says will happen," said Mr Kolbe. "He is like a dictator."
Mr Blaszkiewitz said he wants to stop only the excitement, and it is because the body is already sent, his skin removed and the procedure under way. He said "This after all is only a polar bear, a special polar bear and a polar bear".
To those who bought sold the image of the bear of the Zoo, is that that.
"If things went badly and you felt not good, then you come here, and you felt better again,", said Anne Kreiner, when she visited the Zoo. "I am really against them;" "You would stuff not your pets."
Stefan Pauly contributed reporting.
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