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  2. Hippopotamus - Wikipedia

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    Hippos spend most of the day in water to stay cool and hydrated. Just before night begins, they leave the water to forage on land. A hippo will travel 3–5 km (1.9–3.1 mi) per night, eating around 40 kg (88 lb) of grass. By dawn, they are back in the water. [36]

  3. Megaherbivore - Wikipedia

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    Giraffes and elephants mate for a relatively short time, while rhinos and hippos have a mating session lasting an extended period of time. Females have long gestation periods, between 8 and 22 months. Intervals between births vary between species, but the overall range is 1.3 to 4.5 years. [38]: 116–124

  4. Hippopotamidae - Wikipedia

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    The hippos split off from the anthracotheres some time during the Miocene. The oldest records of Hippopotamidae are from Afro-Arabia and date to the late Miocene, approximately 7.4 million years ago, expanding into Eurasia around 6 million years ago. [2]

  5. Internet's Favorite Baby Hippo Just Learned an ... - AOL

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    All hippopotamus species are semi-aquatic, with skin that is prone to cracking if it dries out. They prefer to spend most of their day submerged in water and come out at night to graze and feed.

  6. Jaw-dropping video shows hippos effortlessly crunching whole ...

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    You can see all the individual whiskers on the hippo's trap, along with the juice that oozes out. The jaw-dropping footage continues with more shots and angles of hungry, hungry hippos happily ...

  7. The earliest evidence of human interaction with hippos comes from butchery cut marks on hippo bones at Bouri Formation dated around 160,000 years ago. [72] Later rock paintings and engravings showing hippos being hunted have been found in the mountains of the central Sahara dated 4,000–5,000 years ago near Djanet in the Tassili n'Ajjer Mountains.

  8. Pygmy hippopotamus - Wikipedia

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    At birth, pygmy hippos weigh 4.5–6.2 kg (9.9–13.7 lb) with males weighing about 0.25 kg (0.55 lb) more than females. Pygmy hippos are fully weaned between six and eight months of age; before weaning they do not accompany their mother when she leaves the water to forage, but instead hide in the water by themselves. The mother returns to the ...

  9. Are hippos in trouble? Feds have three years to decide if ...

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    A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wild hippos ...