Hippopotamus

“I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, only a hippopotamus will do!” Is it stuck in your head yet? I remember the life changing day I pet a hippo in Africa. We were in Egypt and the guide rustled hay and laid it on the outskirts of the water the hippos…

Mother hippopotami teach their offspring how to swim in a no non-sense way. The adult hippopotamus spends about 16 hours a day in the water and needs to know how to keep its tank of a body afloat and mobile. …

by Myrah Alouette C. Alcobilla — The chances of a connection between one of the world’s largest land mammals and one of the most notorious drug lords in history may be low but never zero. A private zoo During the 80s and into the early days of the 90s, the world knew of a Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist…

Observations on the mighty Hippopotamus of the African Wild! — Of all the African species I love — Crocodiles, Lions, Hyenas, Jaguar, Panthers, Leapords, cats, Zebras, Water Buffalos, etc. Hippos are the most unconventional creatures I have come across. After reading and studying these water “Amphibian” mammal creatures and I have grown to love and respect them. …

In South Africa there are many different herbivores. With one megaherbivore, in particular, the hippopotamus it is quite interesting to see the impacts of human and natural disturbances on their populations. While in Kruger National Park, we sometimes spotted hippo herds in the major rivers or in waterholes throughout the…

To explain; ‘bloat’ refers to the collective noun for a group of hippos, this song is about hippos, now read on: We promise to try and make this article less upsetting than the previous albatross one. On our side is the fact that hippos are far less threatened in…