17 Aug 2016

Hippo dies at Auckland Zoo

10:56 am on 17 August 2016

Auckland Zoo's elderly hippopotamus has died.

Faith died yesterday at Auckland Zoo.

Faith died yesterday at Auckland Zoo. Photo: Auckland Zoo Facebook

The zoo said 41-year-old Faith had been unwell over the past few days, but her condition deteriorated rapidly yesterday.

She was showing signs of fatal haemorrhagic respiratory disease, a terminal condition, so euthanasia was the only option, the zoo said.

Faith was born at Auckland Zoo in 1975.