SERBIA MONTENEGRO: SUCCESSFUL BREEDING PROGRAMME AT BELGRADE ZOO WELCOMES ITS THIRD BABY HIPPOPOTAMUS

Record ID: 861745

  • Title: SERBIA MONTENEGRO: SUCCESSFUL BREEDING PROGRAMME AT BELGRADE ZOO WELCOMES ITS THIRD BABY HIPPOPOTAMUS
  • Date: 22nd May 2004
  • Summary: (CEEF) BELGRADE, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (RECENT) (REUTERS) THE HIPPO POOL IN BELGRADE ZOO CLOSE UP ON THE MOTHER HIPPO JULKA AND HER NEWLY BORN BABY LANE PEOPLE WATCHING, ZOO WORKER FEEDING JULKA AND LANE MOTHER HIPPO AND HER NEWLY BORN GETTING INTO THE WATER JULKA KICKING HER NEWLY BORN INTO THE POOL PEOPLE WATCHING JULKA AND HER BABY LANE SWIMMING SOUNDBITE (Serbian) VUK BOJOVIC, MANAGER OF BELGRADE ZOO SAYING "Many zoos in the neighbouring countries have a hippopotamus from this zoo". HIPPO POOL (1.20)
  • Embargoed: 6th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BELGRADE, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO
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  • Country: Serbia
  • Topics: Environment,Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVA7VYPA5WSY873X13LFOBUBW23F
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  • Story Text: A successful breeding programme at Belgrade zoo has welcomed its third baby hippopotamus - 25 kilogram Lane.
    Belgrade zoo is celebrating the arrival of its latest baby hippo. 25 Kilogram Lane is the third hippo to be born at the zoo by mother Julka. In 1997 she gave birth to a male baby hippo called Sasha and in 2002 a female baby named Zoka.
    The newly born hippo is a male.
    Director of the Belgrade Zoo Auk Bojovic says two the previous baby hippopotamus were given as gifts to zoos in Vienna, Austria and Skopje, Macedonia.
    "Many zoos in the neighbouring countries have a hippopotamus from this zoo", he said Belgrade Zoo has several other newborn animals including a recently born baby tiger and bear.
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