Hungry Hippo Starts Eating with a Help of a Glove Puppet!

"Chico caused keepers at his home in Heythrop Zoological Gardens concern when he began to refuse food. But the animal was lured back to his trough under the watchful eye of Gloria, a glove puppet based on the star character in DreamWorks children's film Madagascar."

Click here to continue reading, and see a photo of the mini-hippo being fed by a puppet...

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I thought that this was a fun story, though I honestly don't know how a hippo could mistake a cheap hand puppet for another hippo. Maybe he just has something against being fed by naked human hands.

 

Ron G.

Thats to funny Ron.....................  Hey wait I lost 40 pounds after I had hip surgery and my Mom has had me eating with a hand puppet........................ I wondered where that weight was coming from. I guess I have to hide all the hand puppets.

Thanks Ron that was a good one. I hope my Doctor will go for that story.

Billy D.

What a great story.  It just goes to show that even animals like variety and will respond possitively to puppets.

This show us that animals fears men!

Wao! What magnificent sample of that fact.

Thanks for sharing!

Miguel!

I have heard such facts that many times they will use animal puppets to take care of babies so that they don't get use to humans when they are wanting to return the animals back to the wild......this is a nice story to share with us.

Thanks Ron for the unusual and fun things you find concerning puppets.....

Daryl H