Searching for Chippo: How experts have been tracking the elusive hippo - The Mail & Guardian

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There have long been sightings of hippos in the city’s leafy northern suburbs, says a specialist team.

The department says it is “exploring the most appropriate strategy of mitigating risk of danger of the animal to human life”.

Whether the hippo that’s in Northern Farm is the same animal that visited Chartwell is impossible to tell for now. “We want to make sure [the hippos are] safe in the areas they’re moving in. If they go into areas of potential conflict then we need to intervene,” Hoogstad says. The hippo is not the problem, says Bester. “Since development has invaded the hippo’s natural habitat, we have to take responsibility for not just the inhabitants’ safety, but all the animals within this habitat.”Up until the sighting in Chartwell, anyone driving in the area would have driven straight into the hippo “because they would never think it would be a hippo”, says McClue.

 

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