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Showing posts with label hippo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hippo. Show all posts
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Two weeks old hippopotamus Paula is pictured on the first day of her presentation to the public at the Berlin Zoo December 16, 2008.Photo credit: REUTERS/Johannes Eisele
Teens Allegedly Taunt Hippos and Survive
Two fourteen-year-old boys, while trying to impress a girl, climbed into the hippo exhibit at the Kansas City Zoo and threw rocks at the two-ton mammals.
John Davis, a national expert on hippos, said it was a crazy stunt, considering the animals' weight and that they can run faster than the average human, at least for short distances.
Next time - why not just buy flowers?
John Davis, a national expert on hippos, said it was a crazy stunt, considering the animals' weight and that they can run faster than the average human, at least for short distances.
Next time - why not just buy flowers?
Pet hippo becomes a weighty problem
When a newborn baby hippo was washed up by a flood onto the lawn of his riverside home, the game ranger who found the dying animal lovingly nursed her back to health.But what started out as a cute, tubby 35lbs baby is now a boisterous seven-year-old - equivalent to a human 'teenager' - weighing nearly three-quarters of a ton.
And like many modern teenagers, Jessica, as she has been named, finds family life too comfortable and just won't leave home.
She eats, sleeps, swims and plays with retired game warden Tonie Joubert and wife Shirley at their home in South Africa.
She wanders round the house, drinks coffee on the verandah, hangs out with the pet dogs and enjoys Shirley's soothing massages that help her relax at the end of a happy hippo day.
Cute Baby Hippo
Hippopotamus mother “Debby” is outside for the first time with her one-month old baby “Paul” in Berlin’s zoo on Jun 15, 2007.
(AFP/Getty photo by Michael Kappeler)
Louisville Zoo's Baby Pygmy Hippo Named Isoke
The Louisville Zoo’s female baby pygmy hippo heard her name for the first time—Isoke (ee SO keh), which is African for satisfying gift. Isoke is thriving. She is brave and adventurous, even swimming by herself, without her mom by her side. But, she can still be found following in her mother’s footsteps quite often.
There are only 50 pygmy hippos in 22 locations in North America and births are rare.
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