Cape Town On "Hippo Alert"

[matcom]

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A HIPPO has Cape Town conservation officials on high alert after it escaped from the city's only reserve and wandered near a popular recreational area, apparently in search of female company.

The two-year-old male calf escaped from the Rondevlei reserve "sometime in February" after vandals tore down fencing when they stole an excavator, said city conservation official Cliff Dorse.

"Since then, the hippo, only called "Calf 2002" lived in a nearby sewage works area, where we tried to catch it by luring it into a trap," Dorse said.

But about a week ago, the hippo was spotted near Zeekoevlei, a major recreational area - which ironically in Dutch means "hippopotamus marsh", named by the first settlers to the Cape in the 17th century.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10723428%255E13762,00.html

[demnan]

1. Oh my God!

That's where you got him from! :evilgrin:

[xchrom]

2. put him back, matcom

you've played with your chubby hippo long enough.