The Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park is in ...

Lucifer, the 65-year-old hippopotamus and former movie star, passed away at the Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife ...

Lu, a hippopotamus who spent more than 60 years at Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, has died, park ...

Lu, the beloved hippopotamus who spent decades at Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, passed away Sunday at 65.

For more than 60 years, Lu has been a lumbering, wrinkly symbol of Homosassa Springs, helping to shape the community’s past and present. In recent years, his age began to catch up to him.

Lu the hippo died June 8. He had been at Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park since 1964, and was 65 years ...

Lu, the larger-than-life hippopotamus who called Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park home for more than half ...

Lu the hippopotamus died June 8 at Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park. Born at the San Diego Zoo, Lu arrived at Homosassa in 1964. He was 65. The hippo starred in several movies ...