Flamingos and Hippopotamuses are seen at the Safari Park Zoo in Ramat Gan, north of Tel Aviv, on November 03, 2009. The Israeli zoo says that it has become the world's top exporter of hippopotamuses, having successfully sent more than a dozen of the artiodactyls to zoos worldwide over the past several months. Fourteen hippos have so far been shipped by air or sea to Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine Vietnam at huge costs.




An Israeli zoo worker feeds one year-old hippopotamus Lucie as it stand in a cage before being transported from the Safari Park in Ramat Gan in Israel to a zoo in Ukraine on November 03, 2009.



One-year-old hippopotamus Lucie reacts in a cage as it is transported from the Safari Park in Ramat Gan in Israel to a zoo in Ukraine on November 03, 2009. The Israeli zoo says that it has become the world's top exporter of hippopotamuses, having successfully sent more than a dozen of the artiodactyls to zoos worldwide over the past several months. Fourteen hippos have so far been shipped by air or sea to Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine Vietnam at huge costs.



Young hippopotamus are seen at the Safari Park Zoo in Ramat Gan, north of Tel Aviv, on November 03, 2009. Israel's top safari says that it has become the world's top exporter of hippopotamuses, having successfully sent more than a dozen of the artiodactyls to zoos worldwide over the past several months. Fourteen hippos have so far been shipped by air or sea to Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine Vietnam at huge costs.


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