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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2007 file picture polar bear Knut walks in the enclosure during the celebration of his first birthday in the Zoo Berlin. Scientists in Germany say they have finally figured out what killed Knut the polar bear four years ago. Knut drowned after swelling of his brain caused him to collapse and fall into his enclosure's pool at Berlin Zoo. In an article published Thursday Aug. 27, 2015 by the journal Nature Scientific Reports, researchers say Knut suffered from anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

What killed Knut? Riddle of polar bear’s death solved

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2007 file picture polar bear Knut walks in the enclosure during the celebration of his first birthday in the Zoo Berlin. Scientists in Germany say they have finally figured out what killed Knut the polar bear four years ago. Knut drowned after swelling of his brain caused him to collapse and fall into his enclosure's pool at Berlin Zoo. In an article published Thursday Aug. 27, 2015 by the journal Nature Scientific Reports, researchers say Knut suffered from anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

Knut the polar bear: Mystery of death solved

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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This citizen journalism photo acquired by the AP from an Italian tourist visiting the zoo and taken on a mobile phone on Saturday, March 19, 2011 shows the body of dead polar bear Knut at the Zoo in Berlin. Bear keeper Heiner Kloes of the zoo said that four-year-old Knut died Saturday afternoon while alone on his compound and that it was not yet clear why he died. (AP Photo/Carlo Anfossi)

Berlin zoo: Beloved polar bear Knut has died

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press