After 7 years, Japan zoo discovers their male resident hippo is actually a female
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When Japan’s Osaka Tennoji Zoo took in a hippo named Gen-chan seven years ago, they were told the young animal was a male. Recently, they took a DNA test and found out the mammal is actually a female.
In a post on their website, the zoo said that Gen-chan came to the zoo from Mexico’s Africa Safari in 2017. When they took the hippo in, Mexico zoo officials and transfer documents all indicated it was a male, the Tennoji Zoo said.
“The animal was only 5 years old at the time and was still a child,” a translation of the Japan zoo’s post on the discovery says. “We had no doubts.”
Li Cohen
Source: cbsnews.com