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River of Teeth was a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella [3] and 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella. [4]Kirkus Reviews considered it to be "delightful" and "fun and charming", comparing it to Ocean's Eleven, but faulted it for having some "awkward transitions". [5]
Small boats can easily be capsized by hippos and passengers can be injured or killed by the animals, or drown in the water. In one 2014 case in Niger, a boat was capsized by a hippo and 13 people were killed. [103] Hippos will often raid farm crops if the opportunity arises, and humans may come into conflict with them on these occasions.
Population projections estimate that there could be thousands within a few decades. [5] The Colombian hippos reach sexual maturity earlier than African hippos. [6] Another study in 2023 revealed the number of existing hippos to be even higher than previously estimated, with already between 181–215 individuals. [7]
Namibia will kill more than 700 wild animals and distribute meat to those struggling with food insecurity as the country grapples with its worst drought in 100 years.
A federal judge has given the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service three more years to determine whether the common hippopotamus should be protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Wild hippos ...
The 1996 Zambezi River hippopotamus attack was an incident on the Zambezi River, Zimbabwe, near Victoria Falls on 9 March 1996 where a hippopotamus attacked two river tour guides killing one and injuring the other.
The infamous drug lord brought four hippos to Colombia that have since escaped and produced more than 80 descendants. Wild hippos descended from Pablo Escobar's pets are terrorizing Colombia Skip ...
Pygmy hippos tend to ignore each other rather than fight when they meet. Field studies have estimated that male pygmy hippos range over 1.85 km 2 (460 acres), while the range of a female is 0.4 to 0.6 km 2 (100–150 acres). [8] Two dive in water at Singapore Zoo, Singapore. Pygmy hippos spend most of the day hidden in rivers.