From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin-talk@cygwin.com" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Run, Nikica, Run! ...err swim? wade? float? wallow?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A208ABDEF836@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4E29F7.2050503@gmail.com>
Dave Korn sent the following at Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:16 PM
>
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8456298.stm
>> Hippo escapes from Montenegro zoo
>>
>>
>> A female hippo, Nikica, is on the loose in a village in southern
>> Montenegro after escaping from a flooded zoo.
>>
>> The two-tonne animal, considered one of the world's most dangerous,
>> reportedly swam over the wall of her pen during heavy flooding in the
>> Balkan country.
>
>[ ... more ... ]
> Accompanied by video of a surprisingly placid and content-looking
> hippo, considering that water can't be at anything remotely like
> African temperatures.
I think that a hippo is pretty well insulated, so it is not clear to me
that Nikica would be that uncomfortable. Extinct species of Hippos
lived far north as Britain.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus#Extinct_species
Do northern zoos let their hippos go outside in the winter?
- Barry
Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 19:59 Dave Korn
2010-01-13 22:53 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] [this message]
2010-01-14 12:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2010-01-14 13:38 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2010-01-14 13:47 ` Warren Young
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