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November 7, 2009
Pity the nude bear.
New fuel for your nightmares:
Three spectacled bears in Leipzig Zoo are in various states of baldness, with the worst being hairless all over.
Zoo curator Gerd Noetzhold said he had discovered that zoos throughout Europe and further afield had encountered the same problem, but no-one knew why.
One expert suggested it could be caused by climate and the diet of the bears, whose native habitat is South America...
Gerard Baars, director of the International Bear Foundation, said he had never seen such a condition before.
"I could hardly believe it is a bear although I have been dealing with bears all my life," he told the BBC's Europe Today programme.
Three bald bears perplex experts (BBC News)
I do not wish to Snuggle™ with these bears.
