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Hippo attack kills bathing man: News24: South Africa: News - 0 views

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  • : "A huge hippo suddenly appeared from the water and clamped its jaws around Ngobeni's right leg."
  • "A huge hippo suddenly appeared from the water and clamped its jaws around Ngobeni's right leg."
  • "A huge hippo suddenly appeared from the wate
  • Joey Visco on 08 Apr 11
     
    When hippos go bad
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Hippopotamuses, Hippopotamus Pictures, Hippopotamus Facts - National Geographic - 0 views

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  • Hippos are graceful in water, good swimmers, and can hold their breath underwater for up to five minutes.
  • Their eyes and nostrils are located high on their heads, which allows them to see and breathe while mostly submerged.
  • Hippos also bask on the shoreline and secrete an oily red substance, which gave rise to the myth that they sweat blood. The liquid is actually a skin moistener and sunblock that may also provide protection against germs.
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  • They may travel 6 miles (10 kilometers) in a night, along single-file pathways, to consume some 80 pounds (35 kilograms) of grass.
  • they can match a human's speed for short distances.
  • Hippo calves weigh nearly 100 pounds (45 kilograms) at birth and can suckle on land or underwater by closing their ears and nostrils. Each female has only one calf every two years. Soon after birth, mother and young join schools that provide some protection against crocodiles, lions, and hyenas.
  • Hippos once had a broader distribution but now live in eastern central and southern sub-Saharan Africa, where their populations are in decline.
  • Andrew Gonzales on 07 Apr 11
     
    Hippos are graceful in water, good swimmers, and can hold their breath underwater for up to five minutes.
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Hippopotamus : Facts, Pictures, Video : Animal Planet - 0 views

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  • mosquitoes, which are the nemesis of all pachyderms
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Hippopotamus: WhoZoo - 0 views

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  • In the wild the Hippopotamus eats soft grasses and other low lying plants, aquatic and reed plants, leaves, and fallen fruits. While in the zoo, however, the hippopotamus eat a herbivorous diet. The hippopotamus will occasionally eat cultivated crops such as corn and sugar cane.
  • The Hippopotamus is an extremely fat animal, with a round body, short, stocky legs, and a large head. Female Hippos are usually slightly smaller than the male Hippos. The male Hippo can grow up to twelve feet long and five feet high, and can weigh up to 8,000 pounds. The female Hippo, however, is slightly smaller. The Hippo's body is a brownish-gray color on top, and paler on the underside, with pink areas on the face.
  • Hippopotamuses live in family groups with one male, several females, and their young
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  • The Hippopotamus spends their day lying in the water, with oily secretions helping protect the skin from the sun. Hippos spend their nights grazing.
  • The Hippo rivals the Rhinoceros for the title of the second largest land mammal. The stomach of the Hippo has three chambers, but is non-ruminating. The life span of the animal is 35 to 50 years.
  • Dr. William Barklow has spent many years studying the vocalizations of hippos. These are rarely heard by humans since most of them occur underwater, but calls as loud as 115 DB have been recorded. Hundreds of different calls have been identified. These calls may function like bird calls, as a means of social communication.
  • Andrew Gonzales on 08 Apr 11
     
    In the wild the Hippopotamus eats soft grasses and other low lying plants, aquatic and reed plants, leaves, and fallen fruits. While in the zoo, however, the hippopotamus eat a herbivorous diet. The hippopotamus will occasionally eat cultivated crops such as corn and sugar cane.
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Hippo kills fisherman: News24: South Africa: News - 0 views

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  •  "The hippo caught Morena, who screamed and struggled but was unable to free himself from the animal's enormous jaws.
  • By the time police arrived, Morena was nowhere to be found, but a while later his body was found in the water with deep bite marks in his stomach.
  • It is not the first time a hippo had killed someone at the Sabie River
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  • However, vegetarian hippos are considered to be Africa's most dangerous large animal and are reputed to kill more people every year than flesh-eating predators such as lion or crocodile.
  • Hippos were regularly reported to use their weight of up to three tons to trample people who came between their grazing and the safety of water.
  • Joey Visco on 08 Apr 11
     
    these things are vicious
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    I know right
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Hippo Haven | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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  • “She’s signaling to Storm that she wants to mate with him,” whispers Paolillo.
  • Storm faces Tacha and lowers his mouth into the water, letting Tacha know that he welcomes her advances.
  • Andrew Gonzales on 08 Apr 11
     
    Tacha dips her face in front of Storm and begins to blow bubbles through the water, a hippo flirtation.
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The Hippo - 0 views

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  • A few days before Christmas in 2005, the rains caused the flooding of the Sabaki River.  The strong current swept part of a hippopotamus pod downsteam and into the ocean where they lived along the shore for a few days.
  • A day after the tsunami hit the shore, the only hippo seen was a 1-year old baby weighing about 650 pounds.  He got gotten separated from his family and stranded on an offshore coral reef. 
  • Joey Visco on 08 Apr 11
     
    skip the stupid story cause the real infos near the bottom
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Hippopotamus - Animals - A-Z Animals - Animal Facts, Information, Pictures, Videos, Res... - 0 views

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  • Andrew Gonzales on 11 Apr 11
     
    The hippo is also remarkable for the fact that it can take in enough air to stay underwater for half an hour
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    I've heard 5 min to this so i don't know what is right
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    Adult Hippos have 206 bones
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AWF: Wildlife: Hippopotamus - 0 views

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  • It was considered a female deity of pregnancy in ancient Egypt, but in modern times has been wiped out of that country because of the damage it inflicts on crops.
  • The hippo has neither sweat nor sebaceous glands, relying on water or mud to keep cool. It does, however, secrete a viscous red fluid which protects the animal’s skin against the sun and is possibly a healing agent. The hippo’s flat, paddle-like tail is used to spread excrement, which marks territory borders and indicates status of an individual.
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    Has sound n evrything
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How Do Hippos Mate? | eHow.com - 0 views

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  • Andrew Gonzales on 11 Apr 11
     
    The breeding season for hippos is when the season is at the driest. Breeding during the dry season times the birth so that the that the baby hippos will be born during the rainy season when there is a lot of grass to forage and eat. This is important to the survival of the babies because the mothers will not have to move areas to obtain enough food to survive while the baby is still too young to travel. Mating Hippos mate in the water. The male hippo mounts the female hippo from behind. The buoyancy of the water helps the female hippo to not get injured from the male hippo's weight during the mating process. The male hippo can weigh twice as much as the female hippo, and with his short legs in comparison to his body, he is not able to hold his weight off of the female. The buoyancy of the water serves the function of minimizing his weight.
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Hippo Information - 0 views

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  • On land the hippo can run faster than man. In water it has been known to outdo a small man-powered boat or even a motorboat.
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  • Hippos are sociable animals, typically living in groups of 10 to 15 led by a dominant bull, though larger groups numbering about 150 have been seen
  • When the hippo opens its jaws 150 degrees, it is not merely a yawn but a threatening display of aggressiveness.
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  • If a hippo is wounded, it is even more irritable and hence capable of inflicting greater damage on any intruder. Even boats have been capsized by the huge jaws of an angry hippo.
  • In spite of weighing up to four tons, a hippo has great agility in the water. “It can swim faster than many fish despite its ungainly body.”
  • A mad hippo can bite a crocodile in two
  • hippopotamuses are responsible for more deaths in Africa than any other anima
  • Some 200 to 400 pounds [90-180 kg] of vegetation go into its stomach every day. Its appetite satisfied, Behemoth lies under lotus trees or in the shade of poplars. If the river it lives in overflows, the hippo can keep its head above water and swim against a deluge.
  • When a hippo is in the water, fish called black labeos, a species of carp, “vacuum” away algas, dead skin, and parasites—practically anything clinging to the animal. They even clean its teeth and gums! Other species of fish also help out—some by cleaning wounds and others by using their long snouts to probe and nibble between the hippo’s toes and in other awkward spots.
  • Andrew Gonzales on 06 Apr 11
     
    the hippo may reach a length of 15 feet [of over 4 meters] and a shoulder height of 5 feet [1.5 m]. Its weight may be about four tons.
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San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Hippopotamus - 0 views

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  • Andrew Gonzales on 14 Apr 11
     
    A group of hippos is sometimes called a bloat, pod, or siege.
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