Photo: Courtesy Dickerson Park Zoo.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Two hippo sisters are getting ready to return to their newly remodeled home in Colorado after spending nearly two years at a Missouri zoo.
The Springfield News-Leader reports the hippos came to the Dickerson Park
Zoo in Springfield in October 2017 because the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
in Colorado Springs needed a place to put them while it created a new habitat.
The Springfield zoo had space for the sisters, named Zambezi and Kasai, because its beloved Henry the hippo was moved in 2016 to a new $8 million enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo.
The Springfield zoo’s spokeswoman, Joey Powell, says the sisters were
originally just supposed to spend a year in Missouri but construction delays made the stay last longer. She says they’ve been on “an extended vacation.”
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