Toledo Zoo Hippoquarium

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The Toledo Zoo Hippoquarium is an underwater viewing exhibit for hippopotamuses.

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The Hippoquarium is located in the African Savannah exhibit of the Toledo Zoo. Visitors walk down a small flight of stairs underground, and enter into a room with glass panels on one side. On the opposite side of the glass there is a 360,000-gallon pool[1] where hippopotamuses swim around, giving the viewers a chance to see what the hippopotamus's life is like under water. The filtering system cleans 8000 gallons of water every 90 minutes,[2] yielding particularly clean water, allowing visitors and researchers in 1987 to view an underwater birth of a baby hippo, something that had never been seen in the wild or captivity before. Two more births followed.[3] One of the births was caught on video, and is viewable at the Hippoquarium today.[4] The Hippoquarium was rated by USA Today[5] as one of the nation's ten best animal exhibits, and was featured in National Geographic.[6]

[edit] Effects On Zoo

The newest logo of the Toledo Zoo, featuring hippos.
The newest logo of the Toledo Zoo, featuring hippos.

Because of the popularity of the Hippoquarium, the zoo:

  • made a new logo featuring hippos.
  • became well known around the zoological world as a place to view hippos in a more natural setting

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[edit] References

  1. ^ www.toledozoo.org/plantsanimals/pa_hippoquarium.html Toledo Zoo. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  2. ^ members.aol.com/HippoPage/zoohippo.htm. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  3. ^ members.aol.com/HippoPage/zoohippo.htm. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  4. ^ The Toledo Zoo, 1994, Andres
  5. ^ users.ipfw.edu/zeppp/Nature/hippo.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  6. ^ users.ipfw.edu/zeppp/Nature/hippo.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
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