Teeth Cleaning

At the Zurich Zoo in Switzerland a number of visitors were charmed and amazed today. In an enclosure housing a zebra and a mother and baby hippopotamus the strangest thing was observed. The mother hippo opened her mouth wide and allowed the zebra to reach his head in and clean her teeth. This went on for 15 minutes while visitors observed and took pictures. Never once did the hippo attempt to harm the zebra and the zebra showed no fear while his head was in her mouth. The second link has more pictures.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/162634/Zebra-and-hippo-Open-wide-and-I-ll-clean-your-teeth
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1257204/Zebra-puts-head-hippos-mouth--escapes-unhurt-cleaning-predators-teeth.html

Posted By: patty | Date: Fri Mar 12, 2010 | Comments (5)
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