Death of Knut the Polar Bear Is Explained at Last

Saturday, August 29, 2015 - 14:10 in Biology & Nature

The beloved star of the Berlin Zoo drowned in 2011 in his enclosure after a seizure caused by a treatable form of encephalitis thought to affect only humans.

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