CINCINNATI ZOO GUIDE 
Dwarf Donkeys 
East Africa, where they are still quite plentiful. These animals 
are quite inoffensive while undisturbed, but if attacked they 
unite to repel the invader. They have been known to tear 
several planks from the sides of a boat and sink it and then kill 
the hunter. Their hide is very thick, and is chiefly used for 
whips. The Dutch colonists salt the fat from this animal. When 
salted it is called Zee-Koe speck or Sea Cow’s Bacon. In cap¬ 
tivity the hippo feeds on carrots, potatoes, grass, clover, hay, 
bran, and crushed oats. 
Zee-Koe, the 2nd, a young male hippopotamus, was pur¬ 
chased on April 17, 1924. 
Maud, the female, was purchased in 1911, when she was 
about three years old. Her weight at the present time is about 
4000 pounds. Quite a few hippopotamuses have bred while in 
captivity in some of the zoos in this country. There are two 
species of hippopotamus. A small specimen, found in Liberia, 
West Africa, weighs about 400 pounds, when full grown. 
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