Israeli Hippo has just spawned in Dai Nam Tourist Area

The hippopotamus pair imported from Israel cultivates both pure and successful breeding in Dai Nam zoo, Binh Duong.

Mr. Duong Thanh Phi, zoo director of Dai Nam tourist area said that the hippopotamus weighing about 25kg was born in the morning of July 3, its sex has not been determined. Baby hippopotamus began swimming in the water and looked for her own breast milk.

Baby hippo just born. (Photo: VNA)

Pair of parent hippos are bought from Israel, each cost more than 17,000 Euro. After more than 3 years of domesticated farming under a semi-wild model in an area of ​​200m2, of which 50% of water surface in Dai Nam tourist area, hippopotamus has developed very well, suitable to the climate in Vietnam. Male.

Currently the mother hippo weighs more than 1.5 tons and the father weighs about 2 tons, their food is an easy-to-grow elephant grass. Thanks to good care, the hippopotamus pair reproduced naturally without the intervention of the zoo staff. The hippopotamus is currently a wild animal in the world red book that is highly endangered.

So far, the semi-wild animal garden in Dai Nam has 14 very successful and endangered breeding animals including the Indochinese tiger breeding on F2 generation, South African squirrel monkey, wildebeest and spiritual Helical horns . have reproduced many litters.

In particular, there are two very rare wild animals such as white lions, white tigers that are raised in Dai Nam are pregnant and expected in July this will give birth to the first litter.