ANIMAL PLANET: Has Jessica gotten pregnant since we saw her on Animal Planet?

TONIE JOUBERT: No, she hasn't gotten pregnant yet. As I said in my interview during the filming, Jessica was too young. But she's picked up a considerable amount of weight. According to the measurements we take, she now weighs about a ton. So anytime now she should be reaching puberty and be ready for mating.

The moment she comes in heat ... I mean, we have so many wild hippos living around us here. She will secrete her scent and it will be like an SMS (short message service) upstream and downstream. We'll have so much traffic of wild hippos coming right to the house. She will then mate, and in eight months she will have a baby.

We were asked by another documentary company for the exclusive rights to the mating and the birth. We turned down this offer. We decided that because Animal Planet did the first series on Jessica, if they should want to do a follow-up, we'd want Animal Planet to do the second documentary.

6. How are Jessica and Gorbi the dog getting along?