The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake on March 11 affected the animals in Ueno Zoo in Tokyo in both negative and positive ways.
The most negative impact was the death, on April 16, of a female hippo named Satsuki, who succumbed to inflammation that spread through her body after she injured a front leg in the quake's immediate aftermath.
Toshiaki Inoue, the keeper who looked after Satsuki and her partner, Jiro, said that Satsuki was in the enclosure's main pool when the temblor hit at 2:46 p.m.