Brain injuries may have caused polar bear’s death

    Pathologists say brain anomalies could have played a role in the death for 4-year-old polar bear Knut. The polar bear died Saturday at his home in the Berlin Zoo at a startlingly young age.

    Knut became famous after being rejected by his mother and hand-raised by zookeeper Thomas Dorflein.

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