He’s Knut breathing

Here’s some awesome tragic news for all of you: Knut the polar bear, who caught Germany’s eye years ago, is dead.

As it turns out, it was some sort of brain problem–or was it just that a team of highly-trained warriors finished off the mascot of everything that is wrong with Germany and its obsession with cute animals? Mass bird deaths, mass fish deaths, Knut the polar bear is dead. Well, we’re not talking about our extra-curricular activities.