Photograph shows a baby pygmy hippo at Gelsenkirchen Zoo

PART OF:
The photographic library of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper
Made:
unknown in Germany
maker:
Associated Press
Photograph titled 'Baby hippo is thriving' Photograph titled 'Baby hippo is thriving'

Photograph titled 'Baby hippo is thriving'
Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group
© Mirrorpix

Photograph titled 'Baby hippo is thriving'
Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum Group
© Mirrorpix

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