Bad Parent: Did German Polar Bear Eat Her Baby?

Vera, a popular mama bear in the Nuremberg Zoo, is suspected of having eaten one of a pair of twins she gave birth to last month. Additionally, it seems that she may not be caring properly for the surviving twin.

This bear is also the mother of Flocke, a celebrity bear cub — this year's Knut! — whom she rejected after giving birth to last year. Flocke (that's her in the picture), who was hand-raised after her mother stopped feeding or caring for her, is on track to follow Knut into the post-adorable celebrity phase (overweight, "addicted to humans," suffering from zoochosis) over the next few years. 

Now Nuremberg officials are watching the live video feed to see whether they need to step in and rescue yet another of Vera's children. As for the dead newborn, nobody has seen its body (which Vera had been nudging around and observing), leading experts to conclude that she probably ate it.

So, did she do it?  Ummm, probably. Despite all the anthropomorphizing in the world, cute
snow white panda bears are really just wild animals, as prone to eating
their young as any other beast (remember your pet hamster as a child?).  Still, what (if anything) does this tell us about zoos in general? About polar bears as celebrities in Germany?