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A rhinoceros (/ r aɪ ˈ n ɒ s ər ə s / ry-NOSS-ə-rəss; from Ancient Greek ῥινόκερως (rhinókerōs) 'nose-horned'; from ῥίς (rhis) 'nose' and κέρας (kéras) 'horn'; [1] pl.: rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls) in the family ...
Hippopotamus skull, showing the large canines and incisors used for fighting. The hippopotamus is a megaherbivore and is exceeded in size among land animals only by elephants and some rhinoceros species. The mean adult weight is around 1,480 kg (3,260 lb) for bulls and 1,365 kg (3,009 lb) for cows.
Great northern hippopotamus or Nile hippopotamus H. a. amphibius – (the nominate subspecies) which stretched from Egypt, where they are now extinct, south up the Nile River to Tanzania and Mozambique; East African hippopotamus H. a. kiboko – in Kenya in the African Great Lakes region, and in Somalia in the Horn of Africa. Broader nasals and ...
A hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) An Indian rhinoceros ( Rhinoceros unicornis ) Pachydermata (meaning 'thick skin', from the Greek παχύς , pachys , 'thick', and δέρμα , derma , 'skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr , Georges Cuvier , and others, at one time recognized by many systematists .
A hippopotamus is a large, mostly herbivorous African mammal. Hippopotamus may also refer to: Hippopotamus, a 2017 album by Sparks; Hippopotamus; Hippopotamus (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph; Hippopotamus (restaurant), a French chain of grill restaurants; The Hippopotamus, a 1994 novel by Stephen Fry
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.
A hippo or hippopotamus is either of two species of large African mammal which live mainly in and near water: Hippopotamus; large hippo; Hippo or Hippos may also ...
The rhinoceros was a gift from M. Chevalier, French governor of Chandernagor, to Louis XV. [2] It left Calcutta, West Bengal on 22 December 1769, and arrived six months later in the seaport of Lorient, in Brittany on 11 June 1770. [2]