Cape Town hippo finds a new home in Plettenberg Bay [SOUND]

# The City of Cape Town’s Biodiversity Management branch has successfully relocated a hippo bull from the False Bay Nature Reserve to a reserve in Plettenberg Bay. Hippos are very sensitive animals, and notoriously difficult to capture and transport because of their size, strength, potentially dangerous nature and sensitivity to stress. Deputy mayor, Eddie Andrews, says that over the past ten-years, the metro has successfully translocated three hippos as part of ongoing wildlife management efforts: