It is a real pitty that we did not get a breeding population in the NT. It would have been very good for the conservation of the species and in the future provided a unique hunting opportunity.
This individual was well known with the locals seeing it regulaly and one Qld zoo owner was planning on catching it so it could rejoin the Aust breeding population. He was warned off and prevented from capturing it for unknown reasons. As hippo species are in a related group to pigs it is currently impossable to get permition to import any more.