Many hippo returns

A two-ton hippo that escaped from a zoo in Montenegro has returned home, without hurting anyone. Some said Nikica should be shot and killed after she escaped from her pen on a small island in a lake and entered a nearby residential area. Flooding had...

A two-ton hippo that escaped from a zoo in Montenegro has returned home, without hurting anyone.

Some said Nikica should be shot and killed after she escaped from her pen on a small island in a lake and entered a nearby residential area.

Flooding had allowed the animal to swim over the cage surrounding the pen, and hippos are considered one of the world's most dangerous species.

But Dragan Pejovic, the owner of the private zoo, said Nikica was being monitored and returning to the island from time to time to eat bread and hay.

Today, nine days after her escape, Nikica walked through the open door to her pen.

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