Picture of the week: Orion, the hoppopotamus
Orion the hippopotamus was long overdue a scale and polish when this picture, of a vet getting him ready for his treatment, was taken at the Zoo Santa Fe in Medellin, Colombia, last week.
The animal had been hanging out with the wrong crowd as a youngster, being born on the private Hacienda Napoles ranch that belonged to Pablo Escobar, the notorious Colombian drug baron who died in 1993.
This article was first published in Scotland on Sunday on 07 February 2010