Not Very Snuggly Polar Bears...

The other day I wrote about Failblog. And then I saw a news article that just struck me as an Epic Fail. You see, a zoo in Tokyo owned a girl polar bear, and got themselves a male polar bear cub to start a breeding program. Unfortunately, they waited and waited and he grew up to four years old and... there was still no snuggling going on.

(I have to pause here for a moment and laugh at myself, because I suddenly had a thought... "Do you think the zookeepers thought the cub was gay?")

So they investigated and... he was a she.

I mean, come on! Surely the cub had been examined! Hopefully more than once over the years! I mean... ok, I know that sometimes it can be hard to see on a newborn animal, but I get the gender of kittens correct 99% of the time even on day one... and hey I'm no veterinarian and I would have thought a zoo would know what it's doing!

FAIL.

(Thanks to Reuters' Oddly Enough News.)

~ Elisa