Purple Bear

[GNEP]

Just saw this photo on the BBC's "The week in pictures" - made me smile.



Apparently, Pelusa, a polar bear in Mendoza's Zoo Argentina, turned purple when vets administered a drug to treat a skin infection.

[Brian Ellis]

I never saw a purple bear
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anywhere
I'd rather see than be one!.

Adapted from:

I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one!.

Few people realize that this doggerel was written by a real person, but Gelett Burgess, humorist, inventor of words, and sometimes illustrator, gave the world "The Purple Cow" in an 1896 issue of a tiny San Francisco literary magazine known as The Lark.

[GuchiGuh]

cute

[mutz]

Poor bear. Looks really embarrassed.

[Helevitia]

Here is the link to all the purple bear pics..

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1756&e=1&u=/030722/168/4rc2v.html

[ZokesPro]

She looks sad. Good thing it'll only last a month or so.