The Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, Japan has housed a resident hippopotamus named Gen-chan since 2017. Gen-chan, acquired from Mexico, was believed to be a male specimen all this time. However …
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The Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, Japan has housed a resident hippopotamus named Gen-chan since 2017. Gen-chan, acquired from Mexico, was believed to be a male specimen all this time. However …
It’s been four decades since drug kingpin Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippopotamuses out of Africa to populate his lavish estate in Colombia with exotic animals. Escobar has been dead a long time but his hippos have flourished, with more than 150 of the beasts stomping throughout the Magdalena River basin.
Winners of this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are in and we think they are in fact funny. The comic possibilities of wildlife tend to fall into set categories. There are the photos of slapstick in progress – a 3-month-old lion cub falling out of a tree, for example, which happens to be this year’s overall winner. “It was probably his first time in a tree and his descent didn't go so well,” said photographer Jennifer Hadley.
