JOHANNESBURG: A South African hippopotamus named Vincent has been killed and cooked for Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini after the animal wounded a game ranger, local media reported yesterday.
Wildlife authorities donated the carcass to the Zulu King, who had it cooked up for the annual reed dance, where maidens dance bare-breasted before the monarch, The Star newspaper reported.
“We took a decision to kill the hippo as it had attacked a human being and was viewed as a problem animal,” KwaZulu-Natal province conservation spokesman Musa Mntambo told the newspaper.
