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Hippos
the Toledo zoo does not a have a breeding program for hippos
they drive to the zoo and they live there cause there car ran out of petrol
not in the wilderness, only in locations such as zoo's.
Hippos are only native to sub-Saharan Africa. However, the late drug lord Pablo Escobar had a private zoo in Columbia with several hippos. Thanks to the zoo being neglected, the hippos multiplied and an unknown number have escaped into the wild. There are at least a dozen feral hippos in Columbia, South America now.
yes
yes
The San Diego Zoo has two River hippos: Kunani (female:25 years old) and Otis (male:35 years old) and two pygmy hippos: Franchesca (female:18 years old) and Algon (male:6 years old)
No it can not.
If you mean you want a hippo as a pet, hippos are wild creatures and cannot be domesticated as pets.If you mean you want that zoo to have a hippo in it, then email that specific zoo, and their email address is usually found on the zoo's website.
yes because hippos need to be in the zoo ant they have to be in their own habitat
People are trying to find the pygmy hippos a suitable habitat. But, war in the area is preventing people from finding a suitable habitat for pygmy hippos. Most pygmy hippos live in zoos. In zoos the pygmy hippos are safe from hunters and natural predators. Pygmy hippos have plenty of food and water in the zoos. The zoo keepers breed the pygmy hippos. Also, some people are keeping pygmy hippos as pets.