Knut is a tiny polar bear being raised at the Zoo Berlin by zookeeper Thomas Doerflein. After Knut was rejected by his mother Tosca, he lived in a small room in a home-made wooden pen with Mr. Doerflein sleeping in a cot beside him. A heart-felt companionship is emerging among the bottles, kitchen scales, thermometers and stuffed animals. Neither the media nor the public were allowed to enter this area when Knut was very small. But a small camera captured his first stumbling steps. See how this little animal drinks out of his bottle, explores his environment, goes for a swim outside for the first time, and how he was finally exhibited to the zoo's visitors and to the public on March 23, 2007.
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