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Oh man, that's just f*cked up. Poor bears.
Bears in a zoo in eastern Germany have lost their fur, but international experts cannot work out why.
Three spectacled bears in Leipzig Zoo are in various states of baldness, with the worst being hairless all over.
Zoo curator Gerd Noetzhold said he had discovered that zoos throughout Europe and further afield had encountered the same problem, but no-one knew why.
One expert suggested it could be caused by climate and the diet of the bears, whose native habitat is South America.
The bears come from the Andean mountains of Ecuador, Peru and northern Bolivia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8345550.stm