EIGHT STONE BABY
BIRTH AT AUCKLAND ZOO (By Telegraph.) (Special to "Tho Evening Post") '." ...', AUCKLAND, This Day. ,An eight-stone baby (possibly'a boy) now noses around the huge bulk.of Bella, the female hippopotamus at Auck- ' land. C'harka, the-father, who murdered the first one-clay-old infant in September, 1926,', has during the past ttirea months been discreetly - withdrawn to another pond, but the iron grating did not prevent him taking a note of what went-on in his. old home this morning. /'Does ho know what happened, in I thu next pond?'! the curator was asked. Ho replied,. "Well, .I rather think that ho does. He has been very rest-, less air the morning.."! . Only one baby hippo has been born in the London Zoo during the,last fifty years. ' ' ' ' :-.' .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 11
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125EIGHT STONE BABY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 11
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