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Animal love or media hysteria?
Hype to Flocke
Nuremberg, 2008-02-04 - The Nuremberg Zoo is open daily in the media - "Flocke" all steals the show. In the USA is the photo of the mostly small polar bear sent annex all e-mails. How is this incredible hype? At the third Nuremberg debate on Tuesday, 19 February 2008, at 19.30 pm at the Faber Hall of the Fabersaal des Bildungszentrums, Gewerbemuseumsplatz 2, is the question of what the people of the small carnivore fascinated. Is it the child's schedule or even the desire for a cure world? Is it more accountable, as Flocke into the media spotlight built and marketed? Where are the limits?
Polar bear Flocke ist hale and hearty
There are no problems with polar bear Flocke
Nuremberg, 2008-02-01 - "The Eisbärin flake is still healthy and it is magnificent," says Dr. Helmut Mägdefrau, deputy director of the Tiergarten Nuremberg.
In the course of the day might have been a misunderstanding by a deficiency report on the health condition of the polar bear Flocke widespread. The veterinarian, Dr. Bernhard Neurohr at today's press conference mentioned infection of the gastrointestinal tract referred to the beginning of the hand reared on 8 January 2008. The preventive treatment was carried out because of low impurities of slime and germs in the feces. The animal had no fever and there were no other symptoms of illness to diagnose. The use of the antibiotic was already on 21 January 2008. Because of the remains in the gastrointestinal tract are hay is a preventive means against yeast fungi.