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BASEL, Switzerland — A zoo on Friday rejected suggestions that a baby hippopotamus be killed and fed to the big cats because of lack of space.
Basel Zoo said the hippo, Farasi, who was born in November and has since become one of its star attractions, will stay at the zoo until a place is found for him elsewhere.
“There are rare cases in which we have to kill an animal” and feed it to carnivores in the zoo, said spokeswoman Tanja Dietrich. But this was unlikely to be an option in Farasi’s case, she said.
