[(Title)] Man seen on video smacking rear of hippopotamus at Los Angeles Zoo.

LOS ANGELES (FOX 11 / CNS) - Police searched Tuesday for a man seen on video climbing a wall at the Los Angeles Zoo and slapping the backside of a hippopotamus.

洛城警方周一（8月13号）宣布，根据洛杉矶动物园的报警，将调查一名男子翻过围栏，打河马屁股的事件。

The video began making the rounds on social media last week and that's when zoo officials first learned of the incident, according to the Los Angeles Times.

《据洛杉矶时报》报道，视频上周开始在社交媒体上播放，当时，动物园官员第一次听说了这一事件。

The incident was reported to police by zoo officials and a "No Trespassing'' sign was installed on the exhibit. It's the first such sign to be placed on an animal exhibit, zoo officials told The Times.

动物园官员告诉《泰晤士报》，动物园官员向警方报告了这起事件，在河马园，也已经放上了“不准入内”的牌子。这是第一个被放置在动物展览上的标志。

The video was shot from across the enclosure and shows the man moving over the wall toward the hippos, then slapping one of them, which flinched, and the other hippo raised its head, but otherwise neither animal showed any other visible reaction.

该视频显示，一名黑人男子，蹑手蹑脚的翻过河马园的围栏，靠近两头正在低头进食的河马母子，快速的拍打了小河马的屁股。这只小河马的妈妈被惊动，抬头看那名偷袭的男子，但那人已经转身逃跑，并做出胜利的手势，扬长而去。

"Any unauthorized interaction with an animal is unsafe for the animal and potentially unsafe for the patron,'' zoo spokeswoman April Spurlock told The Times.

动物园发言人斯珀洛克告诉《泰晤士报》，任何未经许可与动物的接触对动物都是不安全的，而且对游客们来说可能也是不安全的。

"It is never appropriate for anyone to attempt to have contact or interaction with any animal outside of our staff-led animal experiences.''

“任何试图与员工主导的动物体验之外的任何动物接触或接触都是不合适的。”

Spurlock told The Times incidents like this are rare. A similar incident occurred in 2011 when a woman crossed two barriers to get close to a pair of elephants.

斯普洛克告诉纽约时报这样的事件非常罕见，2011年，一名女子越过两个障碍接近一对大象，发生了类似事件。

The animals weren't touched and the woman was escorted from the zoo and arrested, she said.

她说，动物没有被碰到，女人被护送离开动物园，然后被逮捕。

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