Hairless Bears
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BearsPosted by: WordSlingerLEIPZIG, Germany - A hairless female bear named Dolores stands in her space ...
LEIPZIG, Germany - A hairless female bear named Dolores stands in her space at the Leipzig Zoo. Experts say all of the female spectacled bears in the zoo have lost their hair due to an unexplained disease. Beside the loss of hair along with itching, the bears do not appear to have any other symptoms.
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By: antonianoel
Everyone's heard of hairless cats. There's also hairless dogs, and even hairless rats. But hairless...bears? At the local zoo in Leipzig, Germany a family of three South American bears who once were covered in thick black coats are now almost completely bald and practically unrecognizable for being bears. Experts haven't come to a final ...
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- News Source: BBC | 27 days agoThree 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-...
- News Source: The Australian | 27 days agoYOU would have thought a fur coat would have been the ultimate bear necessity. But not for unfortunate Dolores, who has lost all her body hair and has been left with just a few tufts around her head. Vets have been left baffled by the condition of...
- News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 28 days agoInternational experts are trying to fathom the puzzling disease that is causing loss of fur across the spectacled bear species. Dolores, Bianca and Lolita are three female bears at Leipzig Zoo in Germany being treated with ointment to relieve the...
- News Source: The Local | 29 days agoThe female Spectacled Bears, Dolores, 15, Lolita, 11, and Bianca, 15, are losing hair from their heads, legs and parts of their backs. Daily Bild reported late Tuesday that the animals appeared to be suffering a little-understood genetic defect that...
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