Monday, February 16th, 2009 – Montag, 16. Februar 2009
Surprise-surprise! – You won’t believe it – I did it again – I visited Knuti! To speak in rather corny words: he rejoiced my heart.
When approximately three or four people arrived at the same time early in the morning he was busy in his moat. As usual he gave us a quite content look – kind of welcoming.

05.02.2009 (In English, Auf Deutsch) – Photos by Viktor I have to admit, that today it is/was not ‘my day’ and I simply forgot that it’s Knuti’s 26/12 birthday (sorry Knuti!!). Anyway, I had decided by co-incidence to go to see Knuti. I missed four busses (one started already when I came running, two others [...]

29.01.2009 (In English, Auf Deutsch) Who ever thinks that Knuti is a sad bear should have seen him in real life this morning. The first two visitors didn’t discover him immediately, when appeared swimming around the left side corner of his moat. He kind of welcomed us broad-awaken-eyed, very adventuresome… First he swam with average [...]

27.01.2009 Even though weather was ugly and wet this morning, I decided to ride the bus towards Zoo Berlin, such that I arrived already some minutes before 09:00h at zoo’s Lions Gate. Knuti was ‘situated’ alongside his moat towards the sloth bears. He was gnawing on the inner skin of one of his balls and [...]

21.01.2009 When arriving at Knut’s enclosure some minutes after nine, two of his habitués were already present. The way Knuti looks at a new visitor is so special: something between “It’s about time!” and “It is not worth the effort!”, and then he continues what he had done before. There are various possible reactions but [...]