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RE: Run, Nikica, Run! ...err swim? wade? float? wallow?
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:53:19 -0500
- Subject: RE: Run, Nikica, Run! ...err swim? wade? float? wallow?
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Dave Korn sent the following at Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:16 PM
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8456298.stm
>> Hippo escapes from Montenegro zoo
>>
>>
>> A female hippo, Nikica, is on the loose in a village in southern
>> Montenegro after escaping from a flooded zoo.
>>
>> The two-tonne animal, considered one of the world's most dangerous,
>> reportedly swam over the wall of her pen during heavy flooding in the
>> Balkan country.
>
>[ ... more ... ]
> Accompanied by video of a surprisingly placid and content-looking
> hippo, considering that water can't be at anything remotely like
> African temperatures.
I think that a hippo is pretty well insulated, so it is not clear to me
that Nikica would be that uncomfortable. Extinct species of Hippos
lived far north as Britain.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus#Extinct_species
Do northern zoos let their hippos go outside in the winter?
- Barry
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