Hard to Photograph Hippos - Baby Fiona--Wednesday, 11/15/17
This is a pretty low-key outfit despite the striped top with + leopard/floral print scarf combination (each side of the scarf has a single pattern and I tied it to show the leopard print). It's instructive to see that when your boldly mixed prints are in very similar shades, the whole thing is toned down.
Outfit cost per wear (OCPW): $21.55
One of the prizes of any zoo trip is, of course, zoo babies! We got to see quite a few of them, including the amazing baby Fiona, swimming around with one of her parents in the photo below. It was maddeningly difficult to get a photo of them, but trust, Fiona is a blast.
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| Cincinnati Zoo |
This 2-minute news clip tells a bit of Fiona's backstory (she was born a premie on January 24 and is the smallest hippo known to survive) and shows her at a little over 2 months old, when she met her parents for the first time. It also talks about the Fiona mania that took hold in the city of Cincinnati. Excellent photos and videos can be found on Fiona's zoo page that continues to be updated daily, as mentioned in the newscast.
It was sad to learn that Fiona's dad Henry was euthanized on October 31 after failing from an infection for some time. We were lucky to have visited the zoo during a period when Henry was ill but doing well enough that they could have all 3 hippos were together. Henry was 36 years old, and the median life expectancy for a male Nile hippo is 35, so he was "already in his golden years," according to his caretaker. Prior to coming to the Cincinnati Zoo in July 2016 when the Hippo Cove exhibit opened, Henry lived at the Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield for 34 years. He had lived there alone for 20 years before moving to Cincinnati, where he was introduced to 18-year-old Bibi (from the St Louis Zoo) and quickly fathered Fiona. The zoo's curator for mammals said, "The girls will be fine as a bloat of two, but they will notice that he's not around and may wonder why he isn't making his contact calls."
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