El Salvador zoo in hot water over false hippo death account

San Salvador (AFP) – El Salvador’s main zoo is in trouble for claiming a hippo died of a brutal stabbing attack by unidentified people, when an autopsy finally revealed the animal in fact died of possible poor care.
Gustavito, a 15-year-old hippopotamus who had been in the National Zoological Park in eastern San Salvador almost all his life, died February 26 after suffering for days.
The government, giving information from the zoo, said the hippo had been stabbed and beaten by unide