GERMANY: Knut, currently the world's most famous polar bear cub, gets a visit from a stuffed toy designer at the Berlin zoo

Record ID: 230984

  • Title: GERMANY: Knut, currently the world's most famous polar bear cub, gets a visit from a stuffed toy designer at the Berlin zoo
  • Date: 6th April 2007
  • Summary: "WELCOME KNUT" POSTERS AND T-SHIRTS ON SALE
  • Embargoed: 21st April 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Nature / Environment,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVA994AMR3KAO5IE2BGQHFITBLV5
  • Story Text: Knut has made it into newspapers and magazines all over the world and companies have started to cash in on his cuddly and cute looks by releasing songs about him, raspberry flavoured sweets in his image and more and more firms are creating fluffy soft toys.
    "I'm drawing Knut, trying to get his typical facial expressions," said Anja Koskinen who designs stuffed animals for the German company "Steiff."
    "It's very important to me for the stuffed animal to look like him," Koskinen said of Knut as hundreds of zoo visitors stood in line, waiting to get a glimpse of the polar bear cub which on Thursday was 4 months old.
    "He is very young, very lively and I hardly get to see him for more than just a few seconds in one position," Koskinen said.
    "I have to be very quick with my drawing. That's the difficult thing about it. He is always on the move."
    Knut, who appears for only two hours each day, has become an international star since he first appeared in front of camera lenses on March
    Only the third polar bear cub in the history of the Berlin zoo, Knut is also on the cover of this week's German language version of Vanity Fair magazine.
    A quirky story.
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