Common Hippo Mixed Exhibits

[Zambar]

Aside from the obvious (Sea Lions & Hippos at Longleat), does anywhere else mix common hippo with other african herbivores? I heard Longleat used to mix cape buffalo with hippo, is there anywhere that can utilise a steady relativley stable relationships with hippos and other herbivores at the moment?

 

[tetrapod]

Many collections maintain Hippo with fish and/or waterfowl. I do know there is a German collection which keeps Plains zebra with Hippo. However I believe that last year the bull attacked one of the zebras.

There are plenty of examples of hippos attacking, killing and consuming antelope in the wild, while captive animals have often attacked curious neighbours. Not to mention the number of human attacks in the wild. Not necessarily as herbivorous as thought.

 

[James27]

In that German zoo you mentioned, I think the Zebra actually got killed. Can't remember the name of the zoo though.
Berlin mixes them with some type of antelope, can't remember what though.

 

[reduakari]

The famous 'hippo killing a zebra' incident happened at the Basle zoo, where the mix had worked for many years. Apparently the zebra frequently fed from the open mouth of the hippo (how weird!), and then one day the hippo was startled by something and clamped down, with tragic results. There were other species in the mixed enclosure as well--antelopes and wading birds.

At Busch Gardens, the "riverbank" that encloses hippos was originally inhabited by a troop of baboons, which I believe could freely access the hippo portion of the exhibit. In recent years the baboons were replaced by ring tailed lemurs, a strange (stupid) mix.

 

[Ituri]

That's one of my pet peeves. Lemurs do not belong in African Savannah exhibits period, end of story.

Apologies, I seem to be the king of "off-topic" as of late.

Disney's Animal Kingdom used to keep colobus monkeys in the trees of the islands of their hippo pools, but apparently that didn't work out.

 

[Dan]

In the relatively new savanna at Copenhagen all its occupants except the rhinos have access to the small hippo area, but the hippos cannot wander out into the rest of the savanna. The reason is that the barrier is made of erected tree logs, wide enough distance between them for the antelopes, zebras etc to pass them but to narrow for the hippos. I think I read somewhere - maybe Toddy wrote it here on ZooChat - that the wilderbeests have had some "incidents" with the hippos. No casualties, though.

 

[kiang]

In that German zoo you mentioned, I think the Zebra actually got killed. Can't remember the name of the zoo though.
Berlin mixes them with some type of antelope, can't remember what though.

Berlin mixes them with nyala and marabou i believe.
I think greater kudu have access to the new hippo pools at Werribee

 

[groundskeeper24]

They weren't exactly true conspecifics, but the old elephant house at Cincinnati had one side that house Cleopatra, a Nile hippo, with Gretchen, an African elephant. They were totally separated in the indoor quarters. The outdoor yards were a little different. Gretchen had the majority of the yards, but the part of the land that housed the hippo had a pool on the edge right next to the elephant yard. There wall down to the pool and some wiring over the water so the animals would not cross over. The two apparently developed a friendship over the years and would visit with each other almost daily. Don't know if it would've worked if the barriers came down, but they did have some degree of contact.