The Osaka Tennoji Zoo revealed on its website that Gen-chan, a hippo taken in as a male from Mexico's Africam Safari in 2017 at age 5, is actually a female. According to the zoo, Mexican zoo ...
When Japan's Osaka Tennoji Zoo took in a hippo named Gen-chan seven years ago, they were told the young animal was a male. Recently, they took a DNA test and found out the mammal is actually a female.
The average male hippo weighs about 7,000 pounds (3,200 kilograms). Hippos are known to be territorial and aggressive at times. A year before Lisa Manders died, seven people were killed in the ...