BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 02: Newspaper clippings about polar bear Knut lie among a stuffed polar bear, flowers and pictures left by mourners at a gathering of people against the stuffing of polar bear Knut's body on April 2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
Approximately 100 people gathered to chant: 'Don't stuff Knut' and 'Blaszkiewitz must go!' while protesting Berlin Zoo director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz's decision to let the Berlin Natural History Museum stuff and display Knut's body. The much-loved polar bear, who also brought in millions of Euros in revenue for the zoo, died unexpectedly of a brain idsease on March 19 at the age of four.
A protester displays a placard reading 'Knut's last rest please not in a museum' during a demonstration in front of the gates of Berlin's Zoologischer Garten Zoo April 2, 2011. Demonstrators called on the zoo management not to stuff their star polar bear Knut, who died suddenly at the age of four on March 19, 2011.
BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 02: A woman lights a candle among flowers and pictures left by mourners at a gathering of people against the stuffing of polar bear Knut's body on April 2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 02: Newspaper clippings about polar bear Knut lie among a stuffed polar bear, flowers and pictures left by mourners at a gathering of people against the stuffing of polar bear Knut's body on April 2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany
BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 02: A woman attaches a flower to the fence of the Berlin Zoo among flowers and pictures left by mourners at a gathering of people against the stuffing of polar bear Knut's body on April 2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
BERLIN, GERMANY - APRIL 02: A young woman holds a sign that reads: 'Stuffing? No Thanks!' at a gathering of people against the stuffing of polar bear Knut's body on April 2, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Approximately 100 people gathered to chant: 'Don't stuff Knut' and 'Blaszkiewitz must go!' while protesting Berlin Zoo director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz's decision to let the Berlin Natural History Museum stuff and display Knut's body. The much-loved polar bear, who also brought in millions of Euros in revenue for the zoo, died unexpectedly of a brain idsease on March 19 at the age of four.
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