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Source Zululand Observer
Wednesday, 24 June 2020, 08:35
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NATIONAL NEWS & VIDEO - Beaches may still be closed to bathers until government lifts the lockdown restriction, but Richards Bay’s resident hippo chose to blatantly ignore the ban.
On Tuesday morning, the hippo was filmed taking a dip before sunbathing on Alkantstrand, the Zululand Observer reports.
A spectacle not witnessed very often, hippos have occasionally been caught frolicking in the waves.
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