8 Real Hippo Habitats! (Planet Zoo Inspiration)

[@rexyjp1237]

3:40 i have been in the elephant backstage erea when i was little at the beekse bergen.

[@justGoron]

Same! Well, not as a child, but on the same day that footage you pointed out was recorded haha

[@tearex2556]

My local zoo has the largest herd hippos in eaza and maybe even the aza with 22 hippos (non breeding) but they're also in a very large safari area with rhinos, zebras, Thomson's gazelles, Marabou, crowned crane, eland, wildebeest and waterbuck

[@justGoron]

Wow that sounds awesome, I'd love to see that some day

[@steliosstanis2125]

@@justGoron Yeah, If to get Waterbuck in the game, I hope to compatible with Hippopotamus🦛

[@bumpycow]

what zoo is it called?

[@cincyspinqueen2066]

Wow!! That is incredible!

[@cincyspinqueen2066]

I love this video you made! It is fascinating to see how other zoos have their hippo enclosures set up outside the US. You took me on a journey! I have subscribed to your page and will be checking out more of your videos! I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and we have one of the best zoos in the US. We have a huge hippo bloat with four hippos here. The bloat originally started with Bibi (female) and Henry. Bibi became pregnant and gave birth to a premature female who was only 29 pounds and six weeks early. Most Hippo calves are around 100 pounds when they were born. The vets did not think the calf (THE famous Fiona) would live. She was the smallest hippo ever born in captivity. She was given 24-hour care and was hand reared by staff. She did well for a few weeks and went downhill very quickly. The vets needed to run medicine directly through her skin to a vein to save her life. Hippos have very thick skin, and it is almost impossible to find specific veins. Thankfully, the zoo is one block from Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the top children's hospital in the US. They saved my daughter's life on three different occasions. My community is very fortunate to have such amazing doctors, nurses, and staff. Several of the neonatal nurses came over and were able to start a line into Fiona's vein, and she became a feisty, fabulous, famous hippo. She turned seven this January. Less than a year after she was born, her father, Henry, died. Our zoo had male hippo from the San Francisco zoo, Tucker, and who joined our Hippo Cove bloat. Within a year, Fiona had a new half-brother who was named Fritz. I love the setup we have here because the hippos can come right up to the glass on the wall and basically be nose to nose with people. Most of the habitats you show look a lot bigger than ours! I like the layout of the first zoo you showed. I never thought hippos (well, the babies) would basically be big puppies! I can not get enough of watching them! I will attack some links if anyone is interested. I do not want to try and pull attention away from the original video.

[@justGoron]

Thank you! Cincinnati is definitely on the list of zoos I still want to visit some day :)

[@cincyspinqueen2066]

@@justGoron you are most welcome! There are many, many links on The Cincinnati Zoo page on KZbin. I still find new videos I have missed in the past. I hope you are able to make it out here someday as well.

[@gingerjoe4759]

That little thing with the size of the enclosure is very nice. Be prepared that we demand it every time now

[@justGoron]

Haha for small videos maybe, but it takes a lot of effort to measure them all hahahaha Also some enclosures are more visible then others

[@cryptidgames693]

Heyo, back with my UK zoo enclosure/ho holding info. I have seen 2 Hippo exhibits here in the UK although there is a total of 4 holders. The better of the two exhibits I have seen is at Longleat safari park, which they rather strangely are mixed with California sealiobs due to them both living in the same lake. The hippo has nearly the entire lake to roam in and a large grassy area to spend time in too. Previously they had a a group of hippos but now they are left with just one. The only way to view the hippos, sealions, colobus monkeys that live on an island in the lake and gorillas that live on a fenced of area of the bank is by going on the zoos boat ride around the lake. The other habitat I have seen is at Whipsnade zoo and they have a medium sized habitat for their hippos, with a steeper land area and a rather small water area. They also have an indoor on show area next to the indoor on show for their Pygmy hippo, the on show indoor is quite small but considering they only have 2 hippos I think it is fine for them.

[@justGoron]

Thanks for sharing

[@Pop-fc5xm]

they have two hippos at longleat

[@cryptidgames693]

@@Pop-fc5xm One passed away either last year or earlier this year. It was stated on their show - Animal park. So unless they have gotten another there is now only one

[@fryzers7932]

Fun fact about the enclosure at Wildlands. The location of Wildlands was in the past a second location of Dierenpark Emmen contected with a huge bridge and a own entrance. But the thing is, the current hippo enclosure was actually a pinguïn enclosure. Which you mention also in the video, but I just wanted to confirm that.

[@justGoron]

Ooh I always thought it was a completely new location, that's interesting

[@MrTiesk]

​@@justGoron The old Emmen zoo was split in two regions. The new Wildlands was built on the West part of the park, and the East Park was closed.

[@rexyjp1237]

9:50 sarcosuchus actully is not a treu crocodile.

[@NoaBo1_20]

When i saw the hippos at Hannover (later Antwerpen too) i was shocked how big they were, because we only have the pygmy hippo in Aalborg Zoo. And hippos, bot pygmy and regular are really some of my favorite animals. Though my only problem with the one in Hannover is that it's quite small, and has a lot of hippos (i've sent a picture in Discord) But you do get to go by it on a boat ride, so Zoom Erlebniswelt uniqueness isn't the only zoo. Great video ;)

[@justGoron]

Yeah I get what you mean

[@mixelmusprime5275]

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but one of the common hippos from Antwerp zoo Hermein, who's been in the zoo since 1981, sadly passed away recently at the age of 43. Her daughter Imani, has been moved to Dublin zoo in Ireland so then she can still live with another hippo to socialise live so at the moment, Antwerp zoo no longer houses common hippos.

[@alfredsupersauce]

I'd be interested to see zoos add some cleaning fish to eat the algae. Might help the visibility. Also in the wild hippos will open their mouths to let fish in to clean their teeth like an underwater dentist office, so it might serve as some kind of enrichment idk I don't work in a zoo (yet).

[@justGoron]

I'm guessing with water that dirty no fish will really survive in there..

[@alfredsupersauce]

@@justGoron maybe if they got a really dirty fish🤔

[@cincyspinqueen2066]

​@@justGoronAt my local zoo, we have a hippo bloat with four hippos. The zoo has talipa in with the hippos because they clean the hippos and the tank. I am not sure how many other bloats are set up here in the US like this.

[@briguy17]

hippo exhibit at yangon zoo is ~300m outside area 0m indoor area, you should come visit sometime i'd like to know ur opinion

[@steliosstanis2125]

My Best Hippo Habitats is from Zoo Antwerpen, Safaripark Beekse Bergen, Cologne Zoo, Monde Sauvage, Pairi Daiza, Wildlands (and backstage) and Zoom Erlebniswelt.🦛🤩😉👍✨ I like for Hippopotamus to get Large Enclosure like African Savanna🌍🌳🌾 with Big Lake for Swimming🌊🦛🥽 and of course, as Underwater Viewing for ZOO-Guests.🌊🦛🌍🌳🌾

[@goudenlepel5051]

Thankyou for making this video it really helps 😊👍

[@rexyjp1237]

Whats your favorite animal?

[@justGoron]

Red pandas :)

[@amicidelclub]

Please visit Zoom Torino! The hippo habitat there is really impressive.

[@Aramar5]

If only frontier watched this video and reduced the space requirements in planet zoo...

[@tigris115]

Oh for sure. The space needed for a social group is bullshit

[@twanhaas5118]

last time i went to wildlands the only had 2/3 hippo's (this was about 3 months ago)

[@justGoron]

The Wildlands footage in this video was recorded on september 21 2023, so also 3 months ago

[@olekklein27]

THANK YOUUU

[@Jo_nas]

I feel like hippos always get worse enclosures than other large animals like rhinos or elephants. Maybe it's because of the higher costs zoos need to spend because all of the water filtering stuff that is necessary. Of all the enclosures in this video I think Cologne is still the best one because it has the largest water area that is accessible the whole year, although the lack of any outdoor pool is very weird. Beekse Bergen and Gelsenkirchen have the best outdoor areas but these pools are not useable the whole winter (correct me if I'm wrong here). So I think in the Central European climate it probably makes more sense to have larger indoor than ourdoor pools for these animals qs they probably spend more time indoors than outdoors.

[@justGoron]

I'm not sure at what temperatures hippo would no longer be able to use their outdoor pools anymore. I feel like I've seen the hippos at beekse bergen outside in the winter often enough. I rarely seen them in their indoor area tbh. Overall winters lately have been pretty soft, so I doubt it's more then one or two dozen days a year. Still I'm inclined to agree, a mix of Beekse Bergen's outdoor and Cologne's indoor area would be the ideal hippo habitat for me.

[@Jo_nas]

@@justGoron Okay yeah maybe you are right and they don't have to be indoors the whole time. I only know from Berlin Zoo (my hometown zoo) that the hippos are never outdoors in winter. At least I've never seen them outside. And yeah I agree Cologne indoors and Beekse Bergen outdoor would be the perfect hippo habitat