Hippo stuck in swimming pool at South Africa lodge

A hefty hippo chased away from his herd at a South African game reserve has found a refreshing place to relax: the lodge’s swimming pool. Now it’s stuck there.
The young hippopotamus plopped into the pool 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.
A game capture team will sedate the hippo and lift it out of the pool with a crane, said MuIsabel Wentzel of South Africa’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Much of the water has already been drained to make the extraction easier. A veterinarian will be present during operation hippo extraction.  Wentzel said the 4-year-old hippo’s mother gave birth recently, and more dominant males forced him from the herd. More