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# Gaspard, but Not Noé
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/gaspar-no-ne-noe/
- Published: 2026-01-20T06:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:17.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Moscow, Nature

In the Moscow Zoo of the 1930s, as a matter of fact, there was a pair of hippopotamuses, a male, Peter, and a female, Greta, and in 1943 they had a calf, August. Peter and Greta lived on into the 1980s. And now we know that besides them there was also a young hippopotamus called Gaspard