Nehru Zoo Park feeds veg cake to two hippopotamuses 'World Hippo Day'

The Nehru Zoological Park (Hyderabad Zoo) celebrated World Hippo Day on Sunday, February 15, by serving its four resident hippopotamuses a giant five-kilogram cake, which was well relished by the mammals.

Zoo authorities prepared the special cakes for Parvathi, Gajini, Rajitha and Rama; baked with wheat bran, pellets, mash feeds, jaggery, wheat



roti and vegetables like cucumber, carrots, green garbanzo beans, colourfully layered with fruits like banana, apple, chiku (sapota), guava, watermelon, musk melon and pineapple.

Parvathi is the oldest hippopotamus housed by Hyderabad Zoo. At 52 years and weighing around 1,500 kgs, she leads the hippo team, active and in good health.