Berlin zoo employee Thomas Doerflein plays with polar bear cub Knut in this undated picture, released on January 24, 2007. (Reuters)
Knut, a polar bear who rose to international fame as a tiny cub at the Berlin Zoo, is being resurrected after being dead for almost two years.
The immensly popular 4-year-old bear died under strange circumstances in 2011 when it had a seizure and drowned in it’s enclosure.
Depite dying, Knut’s fame has barely waned in Berlin which has prompted the German capital’s natural history museum to build a full-sized model of Knut covered in the creatures own pelt, accroding to German newspaped Bild.
“It’s important to make clear we haven’t had Knut stuffed,” said museum spokeswoman Gesine Steiner Tuesday.
Instead, the museum has created a lifelike sculpture of Knut which will be on display in a special Knut-only exhibit for four weeks starting this Saturday.
After that the new Knut will be put into storage and will only be brought out again in 2014 when the museum plans to do an exhibit on climate change.