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Funani is<br />
always ready<br />
with an<br />
encouraging<br />
“nudge.”<br />
By Peggy Scott<br />
ASSOCIATE EDITOR<br />
Photos by Ken Bohn<br />
SDZG PHOTOGRAPHER<br />
A<br />
s mysteries go, it wasn’t so much a case of<br />
“whodunnit” as “what is it?” It was pretty<br />
clear to keepers on March 23, <strong>2015</strong>, that<br />
Funani the African river hippo had given<br />
birth to a calf. They also knew Otis,<br />
the father, had definitely played a role<br />
in the arrival. But it would be more<br />
than two months before anyone<br />
could answer, with any certainty, whether the pair<br />
had produced a son or a daughter. Funani, of course,<br />
had the information, but she wasn’t telling. Nor was<br />
the notoriously protective mother letting anyone<br />
close enough to get a good enough look. Inquiring<br />
minds—and camera phones—would have to wait.<br />
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