Letters and phone calls bombard the Nuremberg Zoo in Germany for letting polar bears cubs starve. 2 polar bear mothers Vera and Wilma gave birth three weeks and five weeks ago respectively. It's not known how many cubs are there, no one has seen them yet.
Wilma is showing all the characteristics of a good mother. But Vera looks like is starving her cubs to death.
She spends many hours outside her lair, neglecting her young and the hungry cries of bear cubs can be heard coming from the lair.
Nuremberg Zoo officials do not want to hand-rear the cubs and start another "Knutmania" They say hand-rearing does not correspond with the guidelines of the European preservation breeding program.
This is a photo of hand-reared Knut from the Berlin Zoo.
Nuremberg Zoo officials say Vera should practice and learn how to take care of the cubs and if something goes wrong she'll have other opportunities.
But the situation is not so grim, When Vera goes out the cubs start crying and she comes back in so there is a chance Vera will learn and become a good mother.
Nuremberg mayor criticizes the zoo for not even knowing how many cubs there are. "They should have cameras there" he says.
via Dailymail.co.uk
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