Pygmy and common hippos could be on their way to Australia in a bid to boost species numbers.
What's next? Pygmy and common hippos are bound for Australia as a 40-year import hiatus on the vulnerable African herbivores is lifted.
"Hippos are quite hard to study in the wild … so the benefit of having these captive populations is they can look at their behaviour, mating rituals feed," Dr Smith said. " has many requests for importation of a range of species of production, domestic animals and zoo animals," he said."We've put specific measures in place so we don't inadvertently bring in new diseases that can't affect just hippos but other animals, especially threatened species.
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