We have a pygmy hippo here in the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.
Its space is located next to a huge tropical fish tank that is transparent on both sides. When the hippo is swimming in the water, you can see it underwater by looking through the fish tank.
They are very very cute, its hard to believe they are so mean
I’m sorry. You didn’t specify whether or not they’d be full-sized hippos or pygmy hippos. You’ll have to make do with the full-size ones, instead.
Sincerely,
The people that dole out hippos and all that stuff
The clue is in the post!!
Can I have a giraffe? Please? I’ve always wanted one, and I promise to be good to it and feed it onions and biscuits. I’ve got a really big yard and it’s fenced already.
Remember giraffes feed on green stuff-and if you get a giraffe I want a pygmy hippo in my garden.
I’d like a hippo, but I don’t have a pool. There’s plenty of green things (and I’d get more, pleasepleaseplease le’me have a giraffe), the onions and biscuits would be for treats only.
(note, if you go to the Wild Animal Park in San Diego, you can feed the giraffes biscuits (like dog biscuits, but for giraffes) from a terrace. It’s the coolest thing ever! One of the keepers told me years ago that giraffes really like onions. Maybe she was pulling my leg, but she seemed quite sincere.)
Squeeee! (you tube link, but no sound)
eta, sorry there’s a little sound. I had my speakers turned way down.
Se, if I get you a giraffe, then I have to get someone else a stoat, and someone else wants pygmy hippos. I only have so many people working under me. Would you accept shopping at Toys R Us as a compromise?
Oo! Oo! I didn’t want a stoat until you mentioned it, and now it’s all I can think of. Can’t I pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease with sugar on top have a stoat?
Please?
For Christmas?
I don’t have a garden, but how about letting me have a dragon for my balcony?
Or, if you only dole out real animals, spider monkeys, please!
Presumably, at half the size of other hippos, the explosive blast of semi-liquid feces used to mark its territory would be roughly half-size as well.
Always keep in front when walking your hippo.
But I don’t like shopping! stamps feet You don’t *have to give anyone a stoat. shantih’s only wanted a stoat since Today 04:35 PM, and I’ve been wanting a giraffe since I was 19.
*yes, that was a really long time ago. His name was Blackjack and he was the handsomest giraffe in the park. He passed away some years ago <sniffle>.
You can has one?
NO! We’re all out of stoats at this minute. We had a run for the holidays. We’ll be getting them in soon, though.
Geez. You’re a whiner, aren’t you? Okay, let’s see…the problem is that we don’t have a box that’s giraffe-shaped Really, at the warehouse, we’ve got some giraffes, but no giraffe-shaped boxes. Get me a giraffe-shaped box and enough wrapping paper and ribbon and you can have a giraffe.
I’d have been a whiner a lot sooner if I thought it would work.
A four-footed, long necked box, tape, and some branches to munch on are winging their happy way to Least Original User Name Ever, General delivery Detroit, MI 48204. Please check the post office on you way home from work on Monday.
Cute? They resemble a cross between a turd and some kind of bizarre, anthropomorphized eggplant.
I want one too though. I bet they make great moat guardians.
“Pygmy hippos make great moat guardians.”
Try saying that 5 times fast.