In the central zoo hippopotamus died

The female hippo died a month ago. However, zoo staff decided to journalists not to report on this, reasoning that "not even all the people writing the obituaries." The fact that the city zoo lost one of the most valuable animals, the public found out by accident. Visitors drew attention to the fact that instead of two hippos in the aviary now lives only one.

As explained in the zoo, the female died suddenly. No signs of the disease no one noticed. Until then, until April 9 in the second hour of the day worker who cleans up after the hippo, has not found that the animal does not float long. After that, out of the pool, where she lay, the water pumped out. The female was not breathing. Administration called veterinary inspectors. On the same day, right next to the cage in a specially fenced off-site spent an autopsy. Discovered that the heart was enlarged and the hippo had atypical spherical shape, the walls were thin and flabby, with scars.