{"id":24940,"date":"2011-03-20T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/20\/knut-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T13:39:13","slug":"knut-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/knut-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Knut is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuddly Cub Polar Bear Knut has died unexpectedly, at the age of four.  The cause of death is unknown but speculation abounds.<\/p>\n<p>In memoriam, please remain silent for a moment while we play the Knut Song:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iNWrFmCCfXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the last video of him, showing his death.  This is a bit gruesome. Perhaps, if you know your comparative medicine, you can suggest a possible cause:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YlC1KIlVYyw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is typical for captive polar bears to live much longer than four years old.  The oldest ever in captivity may have been Debby who <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2008\/11\/18\/science-us-bear-idUKTRE4AH96G20081118\">lived in a zoo in Winnipeg to the age of 42<\/a>, although there are different opinions on that.  More typical is about 15 years or a little longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuddly Cub Polar Bear Knut has died unexpectedly, at the age of four. The cause of death is unknown but speculation abounds. In memoriam, please remain silent for a moment while we play the Knut Song:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[203,3994],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6ug","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}