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The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (/ ˌ h ɪ p ə ˈ p ɒ t ə m ə s /; pl.: hippopotamuses; often shortened to hippo (pl.: hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus and river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Hippo, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede [4] or by one of his many wives. [5] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion, [6] Hippo with her other sisters, except for one, [7] all laid with the hero in a night, [8] a week [9] or for 50 days [10] as what their father strongly ...
A hippo sleeping underwater rises and breathes without waking. A hippo closes its nostrils when it submerges into the water. [60] As with fish and turtles on a coral reef, hippos occasionally visit cleaning stations and signal, by opening their mouths wide, their readiness for being cleaned of parasites by certain species of fishes.
It's hard to open social media these days without a wet, chubby baby hippo popping up on the screen.. Moo Deng, a two-month old pygmy hippopotamus at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand, has ...
The new pygmy hippo was weighed when she was 5 days old and came in at a healthy 15 pounds, the zoo said. She could grow to weigh up to 600 pounds. The newborn was weighed several days after birth ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Two pygmy hippos in Virginia celebrated Christmas with a new family member. On Dec. 24., the Metro Richmond Zoo in Mosley, Va., announced on its website that it welcomed a baby pygmy hippo just ...
Hippo (Greek woman), a Greek woman mentioned by Valerius Maximus as an example of chastity; Hippo (philosopher), a Presocratic Greek philosopher; Hippo Galloway (1882–1943), American-Canadian professional baseball player; Hippo, one of the mythical Oceanids; Hippo, one of the daughters of the mythical Thespius; Hippo, one of the mythical Amazons