The Emirates Zoo celebrates the arrival of "Nagoma"

The Emirates Zoo is preparing to welcome the wonderful female hippopotamus Naguma, and the zoo owners believe that finding a lifelong companion can pose some challenge, and that animal welfare is not just related to nutrition and care, as social life and love are equally important. And, with this in mind, the zoo management hopes that the coming days will witness a true love story with the arrival of a new guest at the Emirates Zoo.

His beginnings are in the garden

Otto Hippo was born on August 6, 2012 at La Cornell Zoo, Bergamo, Italy. As part of their crucial fateful partnerships with zoological institutions around the world, Otto was transferred to the Emirates Zoo in 2016. Otto is now seven and a half years old and is one of the most popular characters in the zoo. From the middle of his swimming pool whose temperature is controlled, it can often be seen while browsing the crowds with royal thinking, and this of course, when he does not use his tail to sprinkle water on visitors, and Otto loves to eat fruits and vegetables as much as he loves to swim, a characteristic of these types that You may explain why the hippo name appeared from the ancient Greek word "river horse". It is 2.2 meters long and weighs about 1.4 tons, which explains why the hippopotamus is considered the third largest mammal in the world after the elephant and the white rhinoceros. With his growth complete nowadays, expert guards at the Emirates Zoo realized that it was time to plunge his giant toes into the dating pool to find a special person.

Gathering hippopotamuses with one another is not an easy matter to organize, and the entire Emirates Zoo team spent several months searching for the appropriate female to join the family, as this research finally ended in Switzerland in 2019, where Nagoma, who was born On October 25, 2016, with a beautiful family at the Basel Zoo, but she always dreamed of finding love. Therefore, through the first cooperative partnership between Basel and the Emirates Zoo, the two teams worked together to unite the lovebirds here in the Emirates.