POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news

A contest is underway to name the polar bear cub being raised by hand after being taken away from his mother at a German zoo.

The names range from Alaska to Hope or Sunshine, a spokesman for the zoo in the southern city of Nuremberg says. But there are also “traditional names” like Emma, Pauline and Frieda, he adds.

Emma P. Bear. Humanising the polar bears. Polar bears eat their young.

The zoo is holding a public competition to find a name for the female cub, who is reported to be thriving after spending a third day without her mother…Vera.

“We’re getting 15 emails with name suggestions every minute,” says city spokesman Robert Hackner.

The zoo’s keepers have dubbed the cub, thought to be female, Flocke - German for flake, as in snow flake - because of its brilliantly white and fluffy fur.

The pure white German polar bear… What would you call it?

Posted: 12th, January 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch. Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0