A DNA test was carried out after zookeepers noticed that 12-year-old Gen-chan did not display typical male hippo behaviour. Gen-chan arrived in Osaka from Mexico in 2017, and customs documents at ...

When Japan's Osaka Tennoji Zoo took in a hippo named Gen-chan seven years ago, they were told the young animal was a male. Recently, they took a DNA test and found out the mammal is actually a female.

Patti's death leaves Happy, a male hippo, as the zoo's lone hippo. The zoo's hippo exhibit is currently closed, as is typical in the fall and winter months; Happy will be viewable again in spring.

According to Taipei Zoo, it collaborates with domestic zoos such as Shoushan Zoo (壽山動物園), Taitung Chinshang Pastoral Farm, ...