warning: new cute polar bear alert

[europop2005]

just born in Germany (same zoo as Knut)

 

[Tiger Edge]

J/k

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I saw that on the news, how adorable

 

[BonoFox1]

sooooooooocuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!

Polar bears are my fav kind of bear

 

[dsmith2904]

eisbar

 

[waynetravis]

little bundle of white fluff

 

[Babydoll]

Awwwwww, soooo cute!

 

[JCOSTER]

Just to precious for words.

 

[BonosBaby12]

Awwwwwwwwwwwww so cute! Makes you want to pick him up and just cuddle him all day

 

[Kiki]

I want to hug him!!!!

 

[susanp6]

Awwwwwwww i just want to cuddle the cute wee baby!!!

 

[angelordevil]

I have a soft spot for polar bears. Aside from their cuteness, I see them now as harbingers of global warming, as they desperately try to survive.

The cuteness factor is high, however. I normally hate television commercials, but the Coca Cola ads with the bears always make me smile.

 

[Vincent Vega]

It's not the same Zoo as Knut was born in, Berlin, she was born in Nuremberg.
But her mother did abandon her, as well, so the Zoo had to take care of the cub.
At the same time in the Zoo in Nuremberg, another polar bear gave birth to twins, but they didn't survive.

 

[Vincent Vega]

Some more pictures here and here and they are still looking for a name

 

[MsPurrl]

Awwwwww! When my son was little, he called them "paula bears", and name kind stuck with my family--love 'em!

 

[achtung_girl]

I'm so sick of it!!!! can't the hear the word 'eisbär' anymore

 

[Vincent Vega]

Now they called it "Flocke" (flake). I hope that's not her final name. But I also never liked the name Knut.

 

[angelordevil]

I was hoping for L'il Al or Goré.

 

[Caroni]

All little beens are beautiful Little dogs, little bears little humans

 

[Kiki]

so he's got a name, but because I can't use the speakers in the office I can't figure out what it is. They're only showing a video on yahoo. anyone else know what this adorable little guy's name is?!

 

[europop2005]

apparently the temporary name is "Flocke" which means "snowflake", they are still deciding on a permament name

 

[Vincent Vega]

It's a girl, not a guy.
And they decided to keep the name Flocke. It's a bit funny: First they ask the public to send in name suggestions, then they receive 25,000 suggestions and in the end they decide to leave the name as it is.

 

[Dusty Bottoms]

thats the ugliest polar bear ive ever seen

 

[dsmith2904]

I just found the polar bear's Web site

http://www.eisbaer.nuernberg.de/

 

[wenda]

So cute! Awwwwwww. I wanna squish him.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

That site is so cute

 

[Pearl]

You just wanna hug it!

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

New pictures released yesterday-here are a few of them

 

[Ava79]

^^ oh god my heart just melts when I see that little bear How can anything be that cute??

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

New polar bear cub wows Germany
Feb 29

After Cute Knut and Flocke, Germany on Friday got a new polar bear cub to ooh and aah over -- and this time one which hasn't been rejected or eaten by its mother.

Wilbaer is the name of the new fluffy white arrival, a play on words combining Wilhelma and Eisbaer -- German for polar bear -- and although he was born on December 10 his existence has been kept secret until now.

Wilbaer's mother Corinna appears to have decided to do her maternal duty and not abandon her progeny while still in cubhood, Stuttgart zoo director Dieter Jauch in southern Germany said.

The zoo hopes to avoid the intense media interest that Knut attracted last year when the cub was abandoned by his mother and had to be reared by keepers at Berlin zoo.

Images of Knut were beamed around the world and "Knut mania" brought the zoo a windfall of almost five million euros (7.6 million dollars) from extra visitors and associated merchandising.

"Wilbaer will not be a commercial success," Jauch said.