plastic hippopotamus in brown portrait

This December, Mara, a 10-year-old female hippopotamus at the Topeka Zoo, will be moving to another zoo. Mara is leaving about a year earlier than originally planned. She came to Topeka in 2007 from the Ellen Trout Zoo in Texas. Two years later, a male hippo named Tucker arrived in Topeka from Disney's Animal Kingdom. See more that Someone Is Getting A Hippopotamus For Christmas