The hippo grew up quickly, and soon her foster parents had to move her to a pool.
The Limpopo River in 2000 caused a commotion among residents of the South African Republic when the waters of this river overflowed during the flood.
In addition, in a number of countries, there was the flooding of the coast, which led to damage to houses and erosion of land. But in addition to real estate, animals living in the river valley also suffered.
When the river began to return to its shores, Joubert was walking along the shore of the couple, she found a hippo exhausted cub at the very edge of the water. And it seems that the hippo was a newborn, as his umbilical cord still hung.
The couple took the wounded child home; it turned out to be a woman named Jessica.
The spouses did not have children, and they directed all the unspent parental ardor to pursue and educate a hippo … who, by the way, weighed 15 kilograms even in infancy!
Jessica quickly grew up, and soon the foster parents had to move her to the pool specially built in the courtyard of the house, from which the little Hippo liked to watch what was happening in the house and around it.
Although most of the time the animal continued to live right in the rooms of its owners.
