Photograph shows a baby pygmy hippo at Gelsenkirchen Zoo
- Made:
- unknown in Germany
- maker:
- Associated Press
Photograph titled 'Baby hippo is thriving'. Caption on back reads in part: The director of the Gelsenkirchen Zoo in Germany, Dr Harold Roth, checks the weight of a four-weeks-old baby dwarf hippo to announce that junior weighs 37 pounds. At birth the hippo weighed only 8 pounds. It is the only hippo ever to have been born and raised in a German zoo.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Daily Herald Archive
- Object Number:
- 1983-5236/30051
- Materials:
- ink and paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 203 mm x 257 mm
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- Daily Herald Archive at National Science and Media Museum
