"If they didn't have stripes, then they wouldn't be zebras would they, silly head!" Sometimes visitors would fling bones to the hippo, assuming from his huge bulk that he eats plenty of meat, or more likely fish, seeing as he spends all day in the water.
或是有人看河馬身材粗壯，以為它愛吃肉，有的遊客甚至以為它老在水一定愛吃魚，便丟給它肉或魚骨頭，殊不知河馬是徹徹底底的「素食主義者」。