57 birthday party for hippo “Mae Malee” at Khao Kheow zoo

[snoop1130]

 

The Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand are making preparations, at Khao Kheow open zoo in  the eastern province of Chon Buri, for a birthday celebration for Mae Malee, the longest surviving hippopotamus in Thailand, which will turn 57 on September 8th.

 

The organisation’s director, Attapon Srihayrun, said today (Wednesday) that Mae Malee will be treated to a huge fruit cake on her birthday and visitors to the zoo will be invited to join the celebration and express their good wishes from September 8th to the 11th.

 

Mae Malee was born at a zoo in Cologne, Germany, on September 8th, 1966 and was received by the Zoological Park Organization of Thailand on June 8th of the following year, when she was about a year old. She has since given birth to 14 calves, which have been distributed to various zoos around the country.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/57-birthday-party-for-hippo-mae-malee-at-khao-kheow-open-zoo/

 

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[jacko45k]

Where is her garland of 100 baht notes?

[Chris Renaix]

Born in 1966?  Mae Malee turns 56, not 57.  Math geniuses galore, it seems...

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, Chris Renaix said:

Born in 1966?  Mae Malee turns 56, not 57.  Math geniuses galore, it seems...

Maybe the Thai way of considering this...she will enter her 57th year. 

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the longest surviving hippopotamus in Thailand, which will turn 57 on September 8th.

Prawits a close second... or is it the other way around?