the lines familiar to everyone since childhood from the merry abc about everything in the world samuil marshak our next you don’t even need to ask him for a plot without any requests, they immediately give a whole cake, well, the anniversary of the pygmy hippo reef from the rostov zoo is 50 years old, congratulations. and that's it. this is a flower cake made from vegetables instead of candles, everything is peppers, as the birthday man loves. and here he is. meet this reef, a pygmy hippopotamus, he has an anniversary of 50 years. they are very rare in nature. they live only in certain places in tropical africa, in the western part of it, and nowhere else in the wild is there a reef, the oldest pygmy hippopotamus in the world among those that live in captivity, given that they live an average of about 30-40 years, if we translate his age into human, then, probably, about 120 years old, he was born a reef in america in 1972. a year later, he moved to the ussr in kaliningrad and became the first pygmy hippopotamus in the soviet union. in 1990, he was transferred to the rostov zoo. here he met he