Posted on 04/23/2024 2:47:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Gen-chan at Osaka's Tennoji Zoo was thought for seven years to be a male.
Betrayed by its DNA and unmanly toilet habits, a hippopotamus in Japan thought for seven years to be a he is in fact a she, the zoo where the wallowing giant lives said on Tuesday (Apr 23).
The 12-year-old came to Osaka Tennoji Zoo in 2017 from the Africam Safari animal park in Mexico, where officials attested on customs documents that the then five-year-old was male.
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Nor did it make courtship calls to females and zookeepers were unable to visually identify any male genitalia, a dangerous task in such a large and potentially aggressive beast. "Therefore, we requested a DNA test at an external institution and the result showed it was female," the zoo said in a statement posted last week.
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No - her name is Fani.
How do you tell a male hippo from a female hippo?
Verrrrryyyyy carefully.
I’ve mistakenly called people who presented as male “sir”, but turned out to be female. The response wasn’t always positive.
That happens a lot with other African mammals.
They’ve got a lot of balls making such assumptions.
The Japanese were looking at the wrong ‘horn’.....
I heard one of my hens crow yesterday morning.
WTH?
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