European Nile Hippo Population

anyone knows how the European wild free roaming population is related to the present day African hippo's?
and, were they the pygmeehippo or the bigger cousins?
 
In Ukraine, there is a private zoo "12 Months" near Kyiv (here is a discussion about it New private zoo near Kiev). A male hippo named Hippolit lives there (https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18065542963870130/). He was born on 09/01/2017 at the French zoo Planète Sauvage (Planète Sauvage) and was called Poshasa. In June 2019, he moved to "12 Months" (this post mentioned his departure 233K views · 1.9K reactions | Planète Sauvage est heureux de vous annoncer la naissance d'un hippopotame, né sous les yeux des visiteurs en fin d’après-midi le 24 juillet dernier Mère de son deuxième petit, Kinshasa est maintenant une mère expérimentée qui a naturellement mis à l’écart Popo, son partenaire et père du petit Poshasa, né à Planète Sauvage, en septembre 2017. Poshasa a quitté le parc en juin dernier, après un long voyage routier vers le Zoo XII months en Ukraine Ce transfert survient dans le cadre des programmes d’élevage européens. Il est encore trop tôt pour déterminer le sexe du petit hippo, qui commence à s’aventurer de plus en plus hors de l’eau ! Restez connectés pour suivre ses aventures ! | Planète Sauvage) and his name was changed to Hippolit.
This guy is cute :).
So Ukraine has 6 hippos in total - 3 males (Kasimir, Nils and Hippolit) and 3 females (Stepanida, Rikki and Lily).
 
HappyHippo said:
In Ukraine, there is a private zoo "12 Months" near Kyiv (here is a discussion about it New private zoo near Kiev). A male hippo named Hippolit lives there (ХІПО = @zoo_12m). He was born on 09/01/2017 at the French zoo Planète Sauvage (Planète Sauvage) and was called Poshasa. In June 2019, he moved to "12 Months" (this post mentioned his departure 233K views · 1.9K reactions | Planète Sauvage est heureux de vous annoncer la naissance d'un hippopotame, né sous les yeux des visiteurs en fin d’après-midi le 24 juillet dernier Mère de son deuxième petit, Kinshasa est maintenant une mère expérimentée qui a naturellement mis à l’écart Popo, son partenaire et père du petit Poshasa, né à Planète Sauvage, en septembre 2017. Poshasa a quitté le parc en juin dernier, après un long voyage routier vers le Zoo XII months en Ukraine Ce transfert survient dans le cadre des programmes d’élevage européens. Il est encore trop tôt pour déterminer le sexe du petit hippo, qui commence à s’aventurer de plus en plus hors de l’eau ! Restez connectés pour suivre ses aventures ! | Planète Sauvage) and his name was changed to Hippolit.
This guy is cute :).
So Ukraine has 6 hippos in total - 3 males (Kasimir, Nils and Hippolit) and 3 females (Stepanida, Rikki and Lily).
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I did not include him in the list because hipposworld.de said no hippos were present at the zoo as of 2021 and the post you linked to was from 2020.
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Translated from German as best as possible: "The zoo opened in 2015.

In June 2019, the enclosure was still under construction; Hippolit lived in the elephant house. Completion was planned for autumn 2019. The zoo planned to acquire another animal in 2020.

On January 1, 2019, there was one bull elephant at the zoo. Unfortunately, no further information about this animal is available. As of January 1, 2021, there were no animals at the zoo."

Hippolit arrived there from Port St. Pere as a 21-month-old in June 2019 (he was born 9/1/2017), but there hasn't been much if anything stated about him or the zoo having hippos since then, there could be many possibilities, he could have died shortly after arrival, he could still be there today, or has since moved elsewhere. Until there is further confirmation on what happened, I am considering him to be lost-to-follow-up. I hate when that happens, especially in today's time but it unfortunately does happen a lot more frequently than we think, especially in European zoos.
 
Nile Hippo Expert said:
I did not include him in the list because hipposworld.de said no hippos were present at the zoo as of 2021 and the post you linked to was from 2020.
Halterdetails
Translated from German as best as possible: "The zoo opened in 2015.

In June 2019, the enclosure was still under construction; Hippolit lived in the elephant house. Completion was planned for autumn 2019. The zoo planned to acquire another animal in 2020.

On January 1, 2019, there was one bull elephant at the zoo. Unfortunately, no further information about this animal is available. As of January 1, 2021, there were no animals at the zoo."

Hippolit arrived there from Port St. Pere as a 21-month-old in June 2019 (he was born 9/1/2017), but there hasn't been much if anything stated about him or the zoo having hippos since then, there could be many possibilities, he could have died shortly after arrival, he could still be there today, or has since moved elsewhere. Until there is further confirmation on what happened, I am considering him to be lost-to-follow-up. I hate when that happens, especially in today's time but it unfortunately does happen a lot more frequently than we think, especially in European zoos.
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Hippolit is alive, I've seen him recently. From time to time they post something about him, but only in Ukrainian, so of course it's really hard for non-Ukrainians to find information about him. Last time he was mentioned on the zoo's Facebook page was on 09/02/25 (2.2K views · 86 reactions | Останні теплі тижні треба провести так, щоб було що пригадувати цілий рік - філософія Хіпо #парк12місяців #зоопарк12місяців #паркщасливихтварин #zoo12months #опіканадтваринами #опіканадтвариною | Парк XII Місяців).
They really planned to get a female for him - twice, actually, but both times they didn't succeed. The first time because of COVID and the second time because of the war.
 
 
HappyHippo said:
By the way, does anybody know where Hippolit's father, Popo, is now?
In the comments on this post from 12/08/20 about a new male hippo at Planète Sauvage (6.4K views · 454 reactions | Il y a quelques jours, nous vous avons partagé la vidéo de l’arrivée de Valentino, un hippopotame que nous a confié le coordinateur de l’espèce dans le cadre du programme d’élevage européen ➡Pour veiller à son bien-être et soucieux de son intégration, les soigneurs animaliers ont réalisé la 1ère mise en contact avec ses congénères, en plusieurs étapes. Découvrez-les en vidéo ! | Planète Sauvage) somebody asked where the previous male is (Popo, obviously) and they said that he had moved to another French zoo.
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He moved to La Palmyre Zoo in exchange for that bull on November 18, 2020, but sadly died of unknown causes three days later.
 
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