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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.
Henrietta Hippo (performed by Larri Thomas, voiced by Hazel Shermet) – a tutu-wearing, genteel hippopotamus with a Southern Belle personality who is a bit shy. Mr. Dingle (played by Chuck Woolery in season one, thereafter by Walker Edmiston) – a friendly elderly postman who is also a shopkeeper and a Jack-of-All-Trades.
Moo Deng (Thai: หมูเด้ง, RTGS: mu deng, pronounced [mǔː dêŋ] ⓘ; born 10 July 2024) is a pygmy hippopotamus living in Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Si Racha, Chonburi, Thailand. [1] [2] She became a popular internet meme at two months of age after images of her went viral online in September 2024.
The pygmy hippopotamus or lala pygmy hippo (Choeropsis liberiensis) is a small hippopotamid which is native to the forests and swamps of West Africa, primarily in Liberia, with small populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast.
Hippopotamus Polka sheet-music cover. Obaysch (1849? – 11 March 1878) was the first hippopotamus seen in Great Britain since prehistoric times, and the first in Europe since Ancient Rome. He was captured on an island on the White Nile when he was less than one year old. His name is derived from the name of the island. [1]
Fiona (born 24 January 2017) is a hippopotamus born and living at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.The first Nile hippo imaged on ultrasound pre-natally, and the first born at the zoo in 53 years, she was born prematurely and cared for with the assistance of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
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 ...
Hippopotamus is a genus of artiodactyl mammals consisting of one extant species, Hippopotamus amphibius, the river hippopotamus (or simply the hippopotamus), and several extinct species from both recent and prehistoric times.