This Is What A Bear Without Fur Looks Like
August 4, 2023
Today I learned that bears without their fur look like giant rats.
This is Dolores.
She lived at the Leipzig Zoo in Germany in the early 2000s and suffered from a rare condition that caused hair loss.
What bears look like without fur pic.twitter.com/YlpelnOGBV
— r.h. Sin (@byrhsin) June 2, 2013
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 program.
These pictures of a hairless bear are creeping me out. pic.twitter.com/8tCEwqu1sD
— Parisa Tabriz (@laparisa) August 18, 2017
The baldness did cause some itching so keepers applied ointments to soothe her skin.
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