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The hippo's jaw is powered by huge masseter and digastric muscles which give them large, droopy cheeks. [39]: 259 The jaw hinge allows the animal to open its mouth at almost 180°. [7]: 17 A folded orbicularis oris muscle allows the hippo to attain an extreme gape without tearing any tissue. [41]
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.
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The behavior of the pygmy hippo differs from the common hippo in many ways. Much of its behavior is more similar to that of a tapir , though this is an effect of convergent evolution . [ 9 ] While the common hippopotamus is gregarious, pygmy hippos live either alone or in small groups, typically a mated pair or a mother and calf.
Once it was determined that Owen had grown too large to safely interact with Mzee, a separate enclosure was built for Owen and a new hippo named Cleo, with whom he bonded quickly. With Owen now twice Mzee's size and well on his way to being socialized with other hippos, the famous friends went their separate ways and Mzee was returned to his ...
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 ...
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Fiona (born 24 January 2017) is a hippopotamus born and living at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.The first Nile hippo imaged on ultrasound pre-natally, and the first born at the zoo in 53 years, she was born prematurely and cared for with the assistance of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital.