Hippo eating again thanks to glove puppet
A not-so-hungry hippo has started eating again thanks to a glove puppet of Gloria the Hippo from the hit kids movie Madagascar.
When Chico, a pygmy hippo at Heythrop Zoo in Oxfordshire stopped eating, keepers did everything they could think of to lure him into eating.
But when the stubborn animal still refused to chow down they threw out their years of training and animal psychology and tried to trick him with a stuffed toy.
Sure enough the PR stunt hair-brained scheme, worked and keeper Michael Howes now slips on the Gloria glove puppet to feed Chico carrots and other treats.
In the wild a pygmy hippo could spend up to up to six hours a day eating ... lets hope Michael likes wearing the puppet on his hand.
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