In the News – Ever Wonder What a Bear Looks Like Without Hair?

Snippet from the article:

You’d have thought a fur coat would have been the ultimate bear necessity.

But not for the unfortunate Dolores who has lost all her body hair and has just been left with a few tufts around her head.

Vets have been left baffled by the condition of the bespectacled bear, who lives at a zoo in Leipzig.

Read the full article (with beautiful, large photos) at: DailyMail UK

This is very peculiar. I don’t know much at all about alopecia in animals to even begin to speculate what the cause is, but the article hints to genetic causes and I’m sure the veterinarians there are going to continue to study it.