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Polar Bear Enjoys Celebrity Life

March 27, 2008 3:53 PM

Knut, a one-and-a-half-year-old polar bear living at the Berlin Zoo, has become an attention-seeking "psychopath," according to zoologists. The bear, who was rejected by his mother and hand-raised by zoo staff, has become so used to the public's attention that he now throws tantrums when he isn't fawned over. Knut is "addicted to the whole show, the human adulation," said Berlin Zoo's Markus Roebke. He "identifies himself as a human and not as a polar bear."