Smiling hippo says cheese
THIS is the “smiling” hippopotamus in a family’s holiday snaps that has become an internet sensation.
Seemingly beaming broadly, the three-ton beast was pictured behind the glass of its water tank next to Lauren Parker.
As her IT consultant husband Jay took the photo on a trip to San Diego zoo, Otis the hippo joined in.
Jay was also pictured with Otis and the result left the couple – from Little Rock, Arkansas – bemused as their holiday snaps popped up on internet sites all over the world.
Jay, 35, even gets fan mail from people who have made him their screensaver or Facebook profile picture.