Photos by ROB ALLEN
The hippoes translocated in the park in recent months (see previous posts) have scattered all over the park & many of the dams have had some(or one) hippoes in them.
But the calf featured here a few weeks ago was spotted & photographed by Rob Allen & is still with Mum in the Nangolomon Dam, itself overflowing with water owing to recent rains.
No mammal in Nature puts on meat (converted from grass;hippoes are of course grazers) quicker than hippoes……
But beware:hungry lions killed one of the translocated hippoes seeking new territory a week or two ago in the Kiserian valley running into the Park.
Let us hope that this fast growing little hippo survives into the future….
Thank you for all these recent great photos from NNP. Good to see that the small one is doing fine! It would be so amazing to see the park all green and lush like it’s now. It was so horribly dry over there in November.