Huberta (hippopotamus)

Huberta (initially named Hubert; the sex was discovered after death) was a hippopotamus which travelled for a large distance across South Africa.

[1] In November 1928, Huberta left her waterhole in the St. Lucia Estuary in Zululand and over the next three years, travelled 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) to the Eastern Cape.

[1] Huberta stopped for a while at the mouth of the Mhlanga River about 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of Durban, and a failed attempt was made to capture her and put her in the Johannesburg Zoo.

Despite her having been declared to be protected royal game by the Natal Provincial Council, she was shot by farmers a month later.

Huberta is the subject of the children's book Hubert The Traveling Hippopotamus by Edmund Lindop and illustrated by Jane Carlson.