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What’s the name?
Nuremberg Mayor Ulrich Maly has asked a jury to deliberate on a flood of suggestions, which arrived in more than 25,000 e-mails and postcards, for the official name of the five-week-old polar bear. The bear cub rose to star status after being taken from her mother, Vera, recently, amid concerns that she could harm or even kill the newborn. The Bavarian city’s zoo made the decision to bottle-feed the cub and not return her to her mother after keepers spotted Vera carr
ying the cub around in her jaws and tossing it around her enclosure. Zookeepers provisionally dubbed the cub, born in early December, Flocke - German for flake, as in snow flake. Proposals have included traditional German names, but among the suggestions are Nibs, Snow White, Aicha and Yuki Chan. On the polar bear’s Internet home page, the zoo thanked all those who participated for “the many creative and original suggestions.”
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