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ABOUT The Hippoquarium is located in the African Savannah exhibit of the Toledo Zoo . Visitors walk down a small flight of stairs underground, and enter into a room with Glass panels on one side. On the opposite side of the glass there is a 360,000- Gallon pool1 where hippopotamuses swim around, giving the viewers a chance to see what the hippopotamus's life is like under water. The filtering system cleans 8000 gallons of water every 90 minutes,2 check yielding particularly clean water, allowing visitors and researchers in 1987 to view an underwater birth of a baby hippo, something that had never been seen in the wild or captivity before. Two more births followed. One of the births was caught on video, and is viewable at the Hippoquarium today.The Toledo Zoo, 1994, Andres The Hippoquarium was rated by USA Today 3 as one of the nation's ten best animal exhibits, and was featured in National Geographic. EFFECTS ON ZOO Because of the popularity of the Hippoquarium, the zoo:
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