pygmy hippo shot dead in australia...

[Jarkari]

I believe so.

 

[Steve Robinson]

does anyone know the ancestry of the dead hippo? was it related to the pair lucky enough to be moved to CWSR?

Daughter.........

 

[jay]

And wasn't there a male offspring of that pair as well?

 

[phoenix]

there are two males born to the tipperary pair - both still with their parents at cairns.

so we need another girl from the taronga pair.

 

[m575]

from what I've seen and read, the hunter didn't kill it because it was a hippo, and probably would've left it alone if they had discovered that it was. If I did hunting, I too would have shot it.

 

[ZYBen]

the hunter didn't kill it because it was a hippo, and probably would've left it alone if they had discovered that it was.

I think you will find that statement is very true and has been said on this forum countless times already.

 

[m575]

yes. I read a very informative post by Steve (I think) after I posted that. Still a sad event!

 

[phoenix]

This is what one looks like.
It was shot in June in the Northern Territory. One of twenty shot in a three day hunting trip.

is that photo of you boof?

 

[jay]

there are two males born to the tipperary pair - both still with their parents at cairns.

so we need another girl from the taronga pair.

Apparently there were four hippo at Tipperary, the breedig pair and two offspring, a female and a male. That was before the move and the subsequent births of the two males at Cairns. So there should be another male around somewhere.

 

[boof]

is that photo of you boof?

if you mean the one with the blue shirt and sunglasses, then yes, thats me.