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This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.
One of the three suspected poachers was ambushed and killed by a hippo. The two escapees transported the man’s body to a nearby road, where a park tourist discovered it the following day.
As one of his last acts of his presidency in early 1861, President James Buchanan approved the Hippo Act, a plan to import hippopotamuses into the United States as livestock. Decades later, the lawless swamps of Louisiana are infested with murderous feral hippos, and Winslow Houndstooth and his band of misfits are hired to clear them out.
Their meat is said to be of excellent quality, like that of a wild boar; unlike those of the common hippo, the pygmy hippo's teeth have no value. [9] The effects of West Africa's civil strife on the pygmy hippopotamus are unknown, but unlikely to be positive. [1] The pygmy hippopotamus can be killed by leopards, pythons and crocodiles. How ...
Hippos generally breed well in captivity; birth rates are lower than in the wild, but this can be attributed to zoos' desire to limit births, since hippos are relatively expensive to maintain. [ 107 ] [ 108 ] Starting in 2015, the Cincinnati Zoo built a US$73 million exhibit to house three adult hippos, featuring a 250,000 L (55,000 imp gal ...
Ian Pindar, writing for The Guardian, agreed with Burroughs' assessment about the book but said "Neither Burroughs nor Kerouac is at his best here, but Hippos has value as a testament to their latent talent." [7] The New York Times, in a review panning the novel, called the book "flimsy" "repetitious" and "flat-footed". [11]
The first version of the company's hippo puppet came out in 2002, referred to in the lawsuit as "Hippo 1." In 2003, CBS used "Hippo 1" as a prop in the crime drama "NCIS," and in the show, "Hippo ...
Jason leads a relatively normal life until one day at the zoo, when he notices strange music coming from the mouth of a hippo. While leaning over the hippo tank's guard rail, he falls in. The hippo swallows him, but instead of being digested, he's transported to a different world called Lyrian.