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What kind of a maroon steps on the baby rabbit of which he's hired to take pictures? Der Klutz. It's not like they're going to find another rare earless bunny in time for an "Easter miracle" for the kids.
Uwe Meinhold/DAPD News Agency, via Associated PressGerman newspapers on Thursday were filled with accounts of the untimely death of a 17-day-old bunny named Til, who had a genetic defect.
First there was Knut the polar bear. Then there was Yvonne the cow.
Til, an earless bunny born last month in a small zoo in eastern Germany, was meant to be the next in a succession of animals to be turned into a national celebrity by the German media. As Der Spiegel explained:
Earless rabbits are very rare, and that factor combined with his cuteness would surely have made him a media celebrity, especially in Germany, which has a history of worshiping furry baby animals.
But in a tragic twist, it was the German media that precluded his potential fame when a television cameraman crushed the bunny underfoot on Wednesday — before he ever got in front of the cameras. He was to have been presented at a press conference on Thursday.
And so it was that the feel-good story of a plush little fur ball with a rare genetic abnormality was replaced in German papers on Thursday with the bizarre and slightly morbid tale of an animal literally crushed by an over-eager German media.
“The cute baby rabbit was a sensation,” the daily Bild wrote in an emotional dispatch filled with capital letters. “BUT NOW THE RABBIT IS DEAD! Trampled by A CAMERAMAN!”
The cameraman, who apparently stepped directly on the bunny as it scampered around during filming, was not identified on Thursday. Uwe Dempewolf, the zookeeper, described him as being “distraught” after the accident.
The zoo where Til was born is keeping him frozen while it decides whether to have him stuffed, as was done after Knut died in March of last year.
It was not the first time that a German journalist accidentally delivered a deadly blow to a small animal. A reporter in 2005 killed an eight-week old squirrel during the course of filming a human interest piece about its friendship with a cat.
According to a report in the newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt, the journalist became frightened when the squirrel scratched her leg and she kicked: “Cinderella was dead on the spot.”
All reports indicate Yvonne the cow is still grazing away.
http://thelede.blogs...n-bunnys-death/
First there was Knut the polar bear. Then there was Yvonne the cow.
Til, an earless bunny born last month in a small zoo in eastern Germany, was meant to be the next in a succession of animals to be turned into a national celebrity by the German media. As Der Spiegel explained:
Earless rabbits are very rare, and that factor combined with his cuteness would surely have made him a media celebrity, especially in Germany, which has a history of worshiping furry baby animals.
But in a tragic twist, it was the German media that precluded his potential fame when a television cameraman crushed the bunny underfoot on Wednesday — before he ever got in front of the cameras. He was to have been presented at a press conference on Thursday.
And so it was that the feel-good story of a plush little fur ball with a rare genetic abnormality was replaced in German papers on Thursday with the bizarre and slightly morbid tale of an animal literally crushed by an over-eager German media.
“The cute baby rabbit was a sensation,” the daily Bild wrote in an emotional dispatch filled with capital letters. “BUT NOW THE RABBIT IS DEAD! Trampled by A CAMERAMAN!”
The cameraman, who apparently stepped directly on the bunny as it scampered around during filming, was not identified on Thursday. Uwe Dempewolf, the zookeeper, described him as being “distraught” after the accident.
The zoo where Til was born is keeping him frozen while it decides whether to have him stuffed, as was done after Knut died in March of last year.
It was not the first time that a German journalist accidentally delivered a deadly blow to a small animal. A reporter in 2005 killed an eight-week old squirrel during the course of filming a human interest piece about its friendship with a cat.
According to a report in the newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt, the journalist became frightened when the squirrel scratched her leg and she kicked: “Cinderella was dead on the spot.”
All reports indicate Yvonne the cow is still grazing away.
http://thelede.blogs...n-bunnys-death/
