Hippopotamus - Wikipedia
Hippos are recognisable for their barrel-shaped torsos, wide-opening mouths with large canine tusks, nearly hairless bodies, pillar-like legs, and large size: adults average 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) for bulls (males) and 1,300 kg (2,900 lb) for cows (females).
Pygmy hippopotamus - Wikipedia
The pygmy hippopotamus or 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 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A male hippopotamus is known as a bull. A female hippopotamus is called a cow and a baby hippo is called a calf. The species is also known as the common hippopotamus or the Nile hippopotamus.
Hippopotamus - Hippo Facts, Pictures & Information - Animal …
A male hippopotamus is called a ‘bull’, a female hippopotamus is called a ‘cow’ and a baby hippopotamus is called a ‘calf’. The hippopotamus is a large, mostly plant-eating African mammal, one of only two extant, and three or four recently extinct, species in the family ‘Hippopotamidae’.
Hippopotamus - Philadelphia Zoo
Hippos form groups under a bull. He claims territory where he gathers a harem of several females and their young. To keep the females for himself, the bull will fight off any hippo that dares to come near. Hippo breeding takes place so that the gestation period, 227 to 240 days, will end when rainfall is at its peak.
Hippopotamus - Animal Facts for Kids - Characteristics & Pictures
Hippos are very large and heavy herbivores that live near water. They are the third heaviest land animals after the elephant and the rhinoceros. Their most striking features are their large mouth, their long, tusk-like canines, their cylindrical body and their short legs. The animals are considered aggressive and dangerous.
Hippo King | About | Nature - PBS
From Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, an old, battle-scarred hippo bull has an incredible story to tell. Previously hippos were almost always misunderstood because their secret life happens beneath the...
Hippopotamus, (Hippopotamus amphibius) - DesertUSA
A mature bull hippo may lay claim to a comparatively small realm of water, for instance, a few hundred yards of a river. He presides over a Hippo “pod” that may include a dozen to several dozen cows, calves and submissive bachelor bulls.
Common Hippopotamus - Facts, Information & Habitat - Animal …
Common Hippo Characteristics. The Common Hippopotamus has a plump, bulky body which balances on four short stumpy legs. These ‘stumpy’ legs are quite versatile. Each hippo foot has 4 toes and although they are webbed, for water usage, they are evenly sprayed enough to support the hippo when it is on land.
ADW: Hippopotamus amphibius: INFORMATION
Hippopotamusi (Hippopotamus amphibius) are found exclusively in the Ethiopian region of the world. Hippos occur in rivers throughout the savanna of Africa and the main rivers of Central Africa.