A young hippopotamus plopped into the pool on Tuesday at the Monate Conservation Lodge north of Johannesburg. The pool is big enough for the hippo to swim but it’s eight feet deep with no steps and “there’s no way he can come out,” lodge manager Ruby Ferreira told The Associated Press on Thursday. Now the will have to sedate the hippo and lift it out of the pool with a crane, much of the water already drained to make the extraction easier. Via Mercury News
