ACHO QUE ME MEO JAJAJAJAJAJAJA COMIENDO CÉSPED TÍO pic.twitter.com/HRW77sdrwz — LOLA MÁRQUEZ. (@lolamarquez12) May 4, 2016

Now we concede this particular escape attempt lacks the excitement of last year’s #LlamaDrama, but we think that the fact it was a hippo that was on the loose adds an element of danger lacking from the escape of The White Llama and The Black Llama.

The site of the escape was a circus in Palos de la Frontera, near Huevla in the south-west of Spain.

The hippo, according to reports, wandered across a main road and ate some grass from the central verge before it was rounded up and taken back to the circus.

So not quite Virgil Hilts in The Great Escape then.




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