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November 3, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091102/wl_mideast_afp/israelanimalsoffbeat_20091102140902

Israel: Top Exporter of Hippos

[AFP] Israel has become the world's top exporter of hippopotamuses, having successfully sent 14 of the artiodactyls to zoos in Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam in the past few months, said Sagit Horowitz, spokeswoman for the Ramat Gan Safari outside of Tel Aviv. With more than 40 hippopotamuses in the zoo and a high birth rate, the zoo had to find a way to scale down their population.

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