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Hands off our Knuts
croatiantimes.com
Zoo bosses are furious over bizarre calls from an animal rights group to castrate their prize polar bear and stop him breeding.
Radical animal protest group PETA say Knut - the world's most famous polar bear - should face the ultimate snip to stop him mating with a female cousin who shares an enclosure with him at Berlin Zoo in the German capital.
Polar bears - officially a threatened species - are part of a world wide breeding programme with zoos desperate to discover more about breeding in captivity.
But PETA spokesman Frank Albrecht insists Knut should be castrated because he is too closely related to is female enclosure companion Giovanna.
"It reduces the genetic diversity, and there's a danger of inbreeding depression into future offspring," warned the PETA boss who once called for Knut to be destroyed after his mother died while he was just a cub.
But angry keepers have rejected the call.
"First they wanted to kill him, then they want to castrate him, If PETA are animal lovers they have a very strange way of showing it," said one.
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