The last day to see LUPE will be 24 September

LUPE IN THE POOL. Photo by Brit Powers/Woodland Park Zoo

LUPE, 24, currently lives in the hippo habitat of the African savanna. Tuesday, September 24, the last day is to see and wish her well on her new adventure. Guadalupe, who lovingly called Lupe of his friends and fans, was born in Disney’s Animal Kingdom and moved to Woodland Park Zoo in 2003.

LUPE became Woodland Park Zoo’s last remaining hippopotamus when its beloved geriatric hippo lily was triggered humanly in April due to declining health and quality of life following a cancer diagnosis. Zoo has worked with the Hippo Art Survival Plan to identify a new home. She will be moved to a zoological accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, like Woodland Park Zoo Is. Out of respect for the hippo’s new home and their desire to make a great hippo splash that advertises LUPE’s arrival, the name of the zoo is detained until Lupe arrives safely and gets into her new surroundings.

LUPE travels in a specially equipped, expensive-safe transport box in a climate-controlled truck. To ensure safe transport and reduce stress, box education has taken place for several weeks in the Off-View Hippo Corral area to help her with cash comfort and desensitization.

“We understand the sentimentality of hippos in the zoo and treasure trove of memories that the members of society have appreciated, especially the joy of seeing the countless pumpkins and watermelons thrown to hippos in their pool over the years,” said Martin Ramirez, temporary senior director of Animal Care in Woodland Park Zoo. “We’re going to miss Lupe and we know how much our zoo family and community will also miss out on this wonderful hippo. While in some ways it was a tough decision to move her because she is so loved, in other ways it was an easy decision because hippos are very social animals, and she needs accompanied by other gaming horses so that she can continue to thrive. We are fully convinced that the expert and dedicate it to dying in the animal reading, and it is very necessary and we are fully convinced and devoted to her new home.

When LUPE departs, it will mark the end of many decades of hippos living in Woodland Park Zoo and new hippos will not be brought in to stay in the existing habitat. Water support is a considerable consideration in the zoo decision to no longer house hippos. Woodland Park Zoo acquired its first hippopotamus in the late 1960s, and the species has remained a favorite all the time for more than five decades ago. However, Hippo Habitat, which opened in 1980 as part of the African savannah, is aged and is no longer sustainable for these semi-aquatic mammals; Water consumption in the hippopotamus pool accounts for almost 20% of the zoo totaling annual water consumption.