A video of an elephant with a smug expression flinging feces at an innocent bystander? How apropos.

It was only two weeks ago that Knut the world famous polar bear drowned at the Berlin Zoo. And early today, officials told the AP that a six-year-old Indian elephant named Shaina Pali died there. A veterinarian suspects an infection is the cause of death, and a necropsy is being performed.

Life in the Berlin Zoo sucks for Knut the polar bear. He's being bullied by female bears in his cage. Said one zookeeper: "Instead of enjoying himself with the three ladies, he cowers fearfully in a corner." Maybe he's nuts?

Has the world's most famous polar bear gone the way of Britney Spears, a mentally-addled trainwreck of an aging child star? Berlin Zoo's Knut "suffers from panic attacks and 'sways to and fro' in an abnormal manner," says one scientist.