AUCKLAND HIPPO. DIES
BALL FOUND IN STOMACH AGONY FOR SIX DAYS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Through swallowing a tennis ball, which lodged in its stomach, Chaka, the adult male hippopotamus at the Auckland Zoo, died this morning. Zoo officials believe that the bail was thrown into the animal’s mouth by a visitor six days ago, since when Chaka had been in extreme agony. The ball was found as a result of a post-mortem examination conducted by Dr. W. Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital. When it was discovered that the animal was in pain, every possible attention was given, but it is believed that no measures short of an abdominal operation coukl have been effective. The curator of the zoo, LieutenantColonel Sawer, stated that an effort would probably be made to procure another male as a male for Bella. Born at a zoo in Germany 17 years ago, Chaka was taken to London as a youngster and was acquired by the Auckland Zoo in 1925 at a cost of £350, excluding freight and other charges..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19455, 14 October 1937, Page 12
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