Animals - Aquariums - Archeology - Insects - Fossils - Zoos
Feb. 26 Young Dwarf Hippopotamus at the Munich Zoo.: It looks rather contrite, the new born dwarf hippopotamus at the Munich Hellabrunn zoo, for it seems if it's being lectured by it's mother. Could it be, that the small one has been too eager to be photograhed? For it's mother Fanta doesn't like it at all, when strangers come near her baby, then she gets very nervous. And that's exactly what the keepers of the zoo are afraid of, for not very long ago, a little hippo was bitten to death by it's nervous mother Coco'. So far some time, about three weeks, the keepers must keep an eye on both of them, after that it is almost sure, that the little one is save. The hippo baby, with 99% certainty a girl, was born in the last days of December, meanwhile is 30 cmtrs long and would be the first dwarft hippopotamus to grew up at Hellabrunn after the war, when it survives
