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Hippos are among the most irascible creatures on the continent. While they are typically content to sleep away the day on the shore of a river or in the shallows, when alarmed they are quick to show their hostile side. Hippos are reputed to cause more human deaths than any other large animal in Africa (though some claim the cape buffalo holds this honor).
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Hippopotamus
Hippos are among the most irascible creatures on the continent. While they are typically content to sleep away the day on the shore of a river or in the shallows, when alarmed they are quick to show their hostile side. Hippos are reputed to cause more human deaths than any other large animal in Africa (though some claim the cape buffalo holds this honor).
Although an adult hippo has no natural predators, it quickly retreats to the safety of the deep water when it encounters the un ...
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Hippopotamus
Hippos are among the most irascible creatures on the continent. While they are typically content to sleep away the day on the shore of a river or in the shallows, when alarmed they are quick to show their hostile side. Hippos are reputed to cause more human deaths than any other large animal in Africa (though some claim the cape buffalo holds this honor).
Although an adult hippo has no natural predators, it quickly retreats to the safety of the deep water when it encounters the un ...
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AFRICAN HIPPOS
The hippo is the world's third largest land mammal. Hippo's live in central, southern, and western Africa. The word hippopotamus comes from two Greek words meaning river horse. In Malawi, hippo's are called mvuu. They can stay under water for as long as six minutes. In some places in Malawi, hippo's come at night and eat people's gardens. Therefore, most Malawian farmers dislike the hippo. We found a story about hippo's if you would like to read it.
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The hippopotami are even-toed ungulates. In the Miocene (about 20 million years ago) they developed from a group (the Antracothers) that looked like today´s pigs. The first hippopotami lived in the forest and were similar to the present dwarf hippopotamus with a weight up to 275 kilogrammes. Some hippopotami adapted to a life in water and by that, the size increased, like in the living hippopotamus with a weight of 3.2 tons. Today, the hippopotami only live in Africa, but as recent as during the late Quaternary (about 75 000 years ago) they also lived in Europe and Asia.
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This short and stocky animal that used to be common in small bodies of water in a wide range of places including Asia, parts of Europe and the across the continent of Africa, is now mainly found in western Africa. It is common in wet forests, streams, and swamps in areas such as Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The current hippo population is estimated at 160,000, and unfortunately, the population is in continuous decline.
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Hippopotamus
Scientific Name: Hippopotamus amphibius
Home: The rivers, lakes, swamps, and wallows of Africa
Description: Barrel-shaped, blue-gray body with pink belly, large head, stumpy legs.
The Hippopotamus, whose name means "river horse", is a plant-eating water-loving giant. A relative of camels, pigs, and deer, the hippo has two lives in one! The center of a hippo's day life is water. Like a hippo pool-party, sometimes hundreds of hippos, will share a territory of water durin ...
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Hippopotamidae
Genus: Hippopotamus
Species: amphibius
Height: 60 inches
Length: 156 - 180 inches
Weight: 4000 - 8000 lbs
Gestation: 224 - 259 days
Offspring: 1 - 2
Life Span: 20 - 40 years
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HIPPOPOTAMUS
The hippopotamus reaches a length of 2.9 to 5 m (9.5 to 16 ft) and weighs 1,000 to 4,500 kg (2,200 to 9,900 lb).
However because of its short legs, it stands no higher than 1.5 to 1.65 m (5 to 5.4 ft).
It generally travels in herds of about 10 to 15 animals.
Hippopotamuses are sometimes called Hippos for short.
Remains of fossil hippopotamuses have been found in European and Indian deposits of the Pliocene epoch and Quarternary period.
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Have you ever wondered how to say Hippopotamus in another language? Well, wonder no more...
In many languages, the word translates to Water Horse, River Horse or Nile Horse. In a few languages (especially around the area of the Indian sub-continent), it means Water Elephant.
For some languages below, we have listed the translation in its native characters. If your browser can't handle this, it may just show ?????????.
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females: wt 1440-5157 lb (655-2344 kg), ht 52-58 in (130-145 cm)
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