Germany Hippo - Pygmy hippo baby shown off to public for first time
NAME: GER HIPPO 210105N
TAPE: EF05/0069
IN_TIME: 10:04:19:23
DURATION: 00:02:12:14
SOURCES: APTN
DATELINE: Berlin, 21 Jan 2005
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SHOTLIST:
1. Pan exterior entrance to Berlin Zoo
2. Exterior of hippo building at the zoo
3. Mid shot pygmy hippo mother and her baby getting food
4. Close-up hippo baby near the water
5. Hippo baby walking
6. Mid shot hippo mother and baby eating
7. Hippo baby enters water
8. Hippo baby and mother walking under water
9. Child watching
10. Hippo mother on the surface of water
11. Hippo mother and baby under water
12. SOUNDBITE: (German) Uwe Fritzmann, Zookeeper at Berlin Zoo:
"We haven't had a river hippo baby here for 19 years. We only had hippos who were related to each other so we decided not to bring them
together but wait until we got a river hippo from another zoo. In 1997 we got her (the mother), and this is her first baby."
13. Mid shot hippo mother and baby under water
14. Close-up hippo baby under water
STORYLINE:
Berlin Zoo has its first baby pygmy hippo in 19 years.
The male baby hippo - who hasn't been named yet - made his first public appearance on Friday after he was born at the zoo in the German capital on November 28 last year.
Zoo-goers watched as the baby hippo and its mother walked under water in a specially constructed tank.
Pygmy hippos spend much of their time in the water, but they can only stay submerged for a maximum of about two minutes.
They are found living in the wild in west Africa.
They're a protected species, with probably no more than a few thousand animals remaining.
Keyword - Wacky - hippopotamus