<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0cb30f2d-5e95-48ed-8ba8-bc1d83646da3/2A7F6FF4-3180-4C20-AFCB-0C77E0AF0116/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/" href="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/" style="font-size: 11px;">celestialdancer.amplify.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><FONT>You’d have thought a fur coat would have been the ultimate bear necessity.</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><FONT>But not for the unfortunate Dolores who has lost all her body hair and has just been left with a few tufts around her head. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><FONT>Vets have been left baffled by the condition of the bespectacled bear, who lives at a zoo in Leipzig.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/celestialdancer.amplify.com/img/C568A5EE-627A-426D-A43A-5D4F6B7AB065" alt="Dolores has a condition which means she has gone totally bald" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><FONT>And Dolores isn’t the only one. The sudden hair loss has affected all female bears at the zoo. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><FONT>Some experts believe it could be due to a genetic defect though the animals do not seem to be suffering from any other affliction.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><FONT>The bears, which originate from South America,  normally have fluffy dark brown fur and would now be growing a thicker fur coat to keep warm during the winter. <BR /></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/celestialdancer.amplify.com/img/9F9213C7-A4F8-4A16-9D46-CBDF6569794E" alt="All the female bears at the zoo have the same condition. They have become a bit of a crowd puller" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/celestialdancer.amplify.com/img/24368D06-EF7E-49EA-B26D-CAA2AFF293AB" alt="Where's my fur coat gone? Dolores still has a ring of fur around her face. She lethal claws are clearly visible" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><FONT>But instead they have developed nasty rashes and inflammations on their skin. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><FONT>Unfortunately for the bears, their lack of hair has been pulling in the crowds who want to see want to see the wrinkly animals.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/celestialdancer.amplify.com/img/93787086-6B06-4F4D-82C1-59381E850780" alt="These is how Dolores would have looked before she lost her fur. The spectacled bears have a thick, dark coat normally" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/11/06/bears-losing-their-fur-in-german-zoo/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD>These is how Dolores would have looked before she lost her fur.<SPAN class="Clog_Source_Button"><A href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225042/Germanys-bald-bears-Fur-disease-afflicts-Dolores-baffles-vets.html" title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225042/Germanys-bald-bears-Fur-disease-afflicts-Dolores-baffles-vets.html" target="_blank" rel="clipsource" linkindex="117">Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk</A></SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2A7F6FF4-3180-4C20-AFCB-0C77E0AF0116/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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