Polar bear cub following in star’s footsteps

NUREMBERG, Germany - The Berlin zoo's polar bear, Knut — who garnered worldwide fame by being hand-raised by his keepers from a pint-sized fluffball to adulthood — now has company.

The Nuremberg zoo says it has begun bottle-feeding a 4-week-old polar bear cub that was taken away from its mother, named Vera, over fears she might harm it. "The safety of the young animal is the first priority," said deputy zoo director Helmut Maegdefrau.

The cub, which has not yet been named, is "lively, strong and well-fed," Maegdefrau said Wednesday. Its eyes are not yet open, and its sexual organs are not completely developed, but zoo officials are guessing that it's a girl, he told reporters.

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Knut could be a hard act to follow. The boisterous polar bear, who now weighs more than 265 pounds (120 kilograms), has his own blog and TV show, and has appeared in scores of articles worldwide, including the cover of the German Vanity Fair.

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His own TV show!!?