Re: [Forum] FW: hipopótamo pigmeo.

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Dear Colleague,

at first if the male hippo doesn't show any agression toward the new born 
infant you schouldn't remove him from the cow and calf.

Now it could very well be that he won't acept the calf in his part of the 
inclosure and he could easily kill it!!!

About the female it could very well be that shes in heat again, however her 
suddenly agression toward her calf is strange and so far has not seen here 
with our animals.

Dont forget that the calf because its a male is very importnat for the EEP 
breeding programm as there is a large surplus of females and a short on 
males!

Good luck and greetings from Germany

Mariano Zamorano
ZOONIMAL ZOOPARK
www.zoonimal.com

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Subject: [Forum] FW: hipopótamo pigmeo.


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>>I am having a problem with the female hippo kept in our collection, 
>>behaviour wise, and I wondered I you any of you could provide some 
>>information or knew of someone that could.
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>>She is with her cub (male), who is nearly ten months old now.  The father 
>>is separated from both in another enclosure, but they can see and smell 
>>each other.  Since yesterday the female is becoming very aggressive and 
>>does not allow the little one to come close to her.  We suspect it may be 
>>because she is in season but I am not sure how often she has her cycles, 
>>last time we had an incident like this was three months ago but it lasted 
>>just for a day, in this case seems to be lasting long.
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>>I am thinking of separating the cub from the mother and putting him in the 
>>enclosure with the father once things calm down between the mother and the 
>>cub? What do you think of this? We were planning on doing this but maybe 
>>wait till the cub was one year old, now if the mother does not want him 
>>close by we may have to do it sooner, what I am worried is how the father 
>>will react with the male cub.  The night he was born they spent the night 
>>together and nothing happened and we have not seen in the father signs of 
>>aggression towards the baby when they see and smell each other, on the 
>>contrary.
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>>Any comments or info will be more than welcome.
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>>Thank you!
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>>Candelaria Marina Gonzalez
> Veterinaria Parque las Aguilas. Tenerife
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