He hippo in Japan zoo turns out to be a she

TOKYO — Betrayed by its DNA and unmanly toilet habits, a hippopotamus in Japan thought for seven years to be a he is in fact a she, the zoo where the wallowing giant lives said Tuesday. The 12-year-old came to Osaka Tennoji Zoo in 2017 from the Africam Safari animal park in Mexico, where officials attested on customs documents that the then five-year-old was male. But zookeepers long scratched their heads, a spokeswoman told AFP. READ: Colombia grapples with Escobar’s hippopotamus legacy In particular, Gen-chan did not display the typical male hippo behavior of splattering faeces around while defecating — […]…

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