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Bizarre Baldness Strikes Female Spectacled Bears in Leipzig Zoo


Offbeat  (tags: animals, spectacled bears, baldness, zoos, environment )

Cher
- 30 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
It's a tough time to be a spectacled bear at the zoo in Leipzig, Germany -- at least, it's a tough time to be a female spectacled bear. Veterinarians are struggling to determine why the zoo's female spectacled bears have suddenly lost nearly all their
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Nyack Clancy (762)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 10:25 am
a radical change in climate would do it (its vastly igffrent between their native Soth Amerca and Germany)

Stress would do it,too.

Not to mention so bizzare animal experiment.... (i shuddered to think....)
 

CaroleNoEmails NO EMAILS (47)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 12:39 pm
I thought of stress, too. Bet that's not even occured to them

*****************Please sign the petition to save the specatled bear at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/save-the-spectacled-bears-in-south-america
 

Julie van Niekerk (136)
Thursday November 5, 2009, 3:18 am
They are depressed - they are in a zoo and on concrete floors.
 

Gorilly Girl (371)
Thursday November 5, 2009, 4:10 am
This I do beleive is all in part to mostly stress...environment will play a part also but come one get them out ot the frikin zoo........

Big Gorilly Hgs
 
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