Abandoned baby bear to be hand-raised by zoo

A FOUR-WEEK-OLD polar bear cub that was taken from its mother amid fears she would harm it is doing well, zoo keepers said last night.

The cub’s eyes are not yet open and it is not completely developed, but it is thought to be a female, the Nuremberg zoo’s deputy director Helmut Maegdefrau announced.

The bear is the first to be hand-raised since the now internationally famous Knut was brought up by a keeper after being abandoned by his mother at Berlin zoo a year ago.