Celebrity polar bear Knut died by drowning, the Berlin Zoo said on Friday.
The polar bear suffered from encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, to reduce before he drowned on 19 March that it had specified an autopsy. Knut swelling if he had not drowned probably would have died from brain, Zoo officials said.
"In the end, Knut drowned actually," Achim Gruber, Managing Director of animal Pathology Institute at the free University of Berlin, said a Pressekonferenz.Gruber said that the bear had "severe brain damage" for some time, cause uncontrollable muscle spasms.
Grief over the four-year old superstar polar bear is slowly but surely is replaced with a growing Wut-and confusion.
Fans of Knut, that nothing short of world-wide fame as an uber-cute cub in 2007 shot, plan a demonstration Saturday in protest against plans for his body to be filled and on display in Berlin's natural history museum.
Have activists collect signatures on the Internet and on the streets, and an online condolence book provided by the Zoo (http://www.zoo-berlin.de) is full of angry missive.
"Knut can not be filled." When want to get the message!, "reads S. one of Michael"Let him only once! You cannot be serious. "Leave in peace rest Knut!"
"We are no longer in the 19th century" Doris Webb, the more than 30,000 signatures for a petition in 2009 collected, Knut go to a different Zoo said feared at the time was to prevent, the Berliner Zeitung daily.
Open letter to Zoo Director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz, says: "Nobody wants to see to a rigid, dead Knut."
According to a survey of more than 2,400 people published in the Berlin tabloid BZ oppose him put forward on display in the Museum 73 percent of those polled.
Activists accuse the Zoo, which has already millions of euros of Knut in the merchandising and extra entrance fees to want him even more milk.
Instead, you say Knut should be burned.
The activists are not put off by the fact that despite all Growl, Knut are filled not actually: what happens today, is a plastic model of a body is animal from the fur, skin or scaled retrieved on.
And it is not certain that Knut will go on display at the Museum of natural history along with the largest mounted dinosaur skeleton and its other prized exhibits. A decision has not yet taken, is it.
Heiner Kloes, is defiant, the bear in the Berlin Zoo.
He said "be led if we have chosen something not we let us astray either by thousands of people, thousands of people and hundreds of thousands,".
The Zoo has Knut's body to the Museum, as it does with his dead animals, so that it, scientific research can help, he stressed.
"If he burned or in a coffin or what ever buried, nobody benefits." "And if people who want to say remember him, as he was and not see it, then no one is forcing them to the Museum go."
Knut, dead from a pool in its case, which he, moved with three women only four years and three months old, far below the average life expectancy for polar bears from around 35.
The bear was a national cause celebre after is spurned by his mother and raised by hand of keeper Thomas D?rflein, even some bear-like that of Elvis Presley songs, snow-white cub on his guitar would strum.
The first public appearance of the "cute Knut" in March 2007 moved 100 television camera crews from around the world, and the bear made it even on the cover of the glossy U.S. magazine Vanity Fair.
But as soon as Knut adolescent in a strapping and then adult grew, started animal rights activists to ensure that it was displayed abnormal behavior because all the attention. D?rflein died at the age of 44 from a heart attack in 2008.
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