📷 Most charming Hippo

Today we will go with you on a visit to the Juju - the common hippopotamus, which lives in Krasnodar Safari Park, and always happy to have guests and numerous visitors. He refers to the order Artiodactyla, of the family of hippos.

Hippos are among the largest mammals that can feel both in the water and on land. The weight of such an important power animal and can reach 4 tons! To raise them is only possible using special tools.

at the beginning of the last century the hippos lived in the lower reaches of the Nile all the way to Cape town, but today they are becoming less, so they have long been listed in the Red Book.

On land, the hippos seem to be very clumsy and slow. I like to sleep, to soak up the sun, they are inactive and sluggish. But in the wild can even run very well (with speeds up to 30 km/h).

Only mean they are apathetic and sweet, and the wildlife tourists need to be especially careful when dealing with hippos. Note how huge they fall in this better to avoid it :-) And that's not a large specimen.

Love this creation and good food, but after eating - quiet time, which can last 3-4 hours. They really have nowhere to hurry.

Susan is a real artist, she can perform various "tricks". But if she's not in the mood, it would be like to sit in their mini-lake, and even did not stop.

She loves the attention of viewers, then just goes into a rage. And constantly begging for a new batch of food, although their rate (of about 40 kg of fresh feed) she has already received.

It fascinated me with its coolness around the little ones and shouted and frolicked, in order to attract her attention, but she was adamant, I thought about something else, begemotukas ))