Photograph shows a zookeeper bottle-feeding a baby pygmy hippo
- Made:
- 1951-04-04 in St Louis
Photograph titled 'Bottle-fed hippo.' Caption on back reads: If the keeper would let her, Skippy would drink enough milk - straight from the bottle - to feed a dozen babies. For she is a baby pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia, now a resident of the zoo in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Although an attractive and friendly infant, Skippy can look forward to being a leading heavyweight contender among animals. Her keepers say that eventually she will weigh 500 pounds or so.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Daily Herald Archive
- Object Number:
- 1983-5236/30052
- Materials:
- ink and paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 200 mm x 165 mm
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- Daily Herald Archive at National Science and Media Museum
