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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.
Hippopotamidae is a family of stout, naked-skinned, and semiaquatic artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologically, their closest living relatives are the cetaceans.
Hippos are native to Africa and live mainly in sub-Saharan regions. They are semi-aquatic mammals and spend much of their time in slow-moving bodies of water like swamps, lakes, estuaries ...
The hippocampal subfields are four subfields CA1, CA2, CA3, and CA4 that make up the structure of the hippocampus.Regions described in the hippocampus are the head, body, and tail, and other hippocampal subfields include the dentate gyrus, the presubiculum, and the subiculum.
Hippos are characterized by large, barrel-shaped torsos, stocky legs, and large mouths containing equally large canine tusks. They are huge and stocky, but despite this frame, can run upwards of
The remainder of the Armley Hippo's 122 bones are kept in the museum's archives. [5] It is rare to find such a large proportion of an ancient hippopotamus skeleton in the UK, it being more common to find just a few bones. [12] The Armley Hippo "is the most northerly specimen of its kind found in the UK". [13] "For generations it’s been the ...
Hippocampus anatomy describes the physical aspects and properties of the hippocampus, a neural structure in the medial temporal lobe of each cerebral hemisphere of the brain. It has a distinctive, curved shape that has been likened to the sea-horse creature of Greek mythology , and the ram's horns of Amun in Egyptian mythology .
Animals described as pachyderms, clockwise from top left: a hippopotamus, a rhinoceros, a tapir, and an elephant Pachydermata (meaning 'thick skin', from the Greek παχύς , pachys , 'thick', and δέρμα , derma , 'skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr , Georges Cuvier , and others, at one time recognized by ...