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  2. Footballfish - Wikipedia

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    The football fish family and genus names are derived from a combination of himantos, which means a "leather strap", "thong" or "leash", with lophus, meaning "crest" or "tuft". Reinhardt did not explain this name but it is thought to refer to the thick, leathery illicium of the type species , H. groenlandicus .

  3. Hippopotamus - Wikipedia

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    Hippos occasionally visit cleaning stations in order to be cleaned of parasites by certain species of fishes. They signal their readiness for this service by opening their mouths wide. This is an example of mutualism, in which the hippo benefits from the cleaning while the fish receive food. [89]

  4. Bloater (herring) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Bloaters are sometimes called a Yarmouth bloater, although production of the product in Yarmouth appears to have now ceased in the town with the closure of its smoked fish factory in 2018. The bloater is also sometimes jokingly referred to as a Yarmouth capon , two-eyed steak , or Billingsgate pheasant (after the Billingsgate Fish ...

  5. Moment Angry Hippo Attacks Boat in Harrowing Video Is Wild - AOL

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    It's believed that the male was protecting one of the hippo calves that was in the group (also called a pod or a bloat). Hippos don't actually swim, instead they walk along the bottom of the water ...

  6. Can't see Moo Deng in real life? Here's how to get your hippo ...

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    Per a survey conducted by the IUCN in 1993, only about 2,000-3,000 pygmy hippos remained worldwide. Moo Deng's recent celebrity has had a large impact on the Khao Kheow Open Zoo .

  7. Wikipedia : WikiProject WikiFundi Content/Hippopotamus

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    According to a San story; when the Creator assigned each animal its place in nature, the hippos wanted to live in the water, but were refused out of fear that they might eat all the fish. After begging and pleading, the hippos were finally allowed to live in the water on the conditions that they would eat grass instead of fish and would fling ...

  8. Crevalle jack - Wikipedia

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    Caranx hippos hippos (Linnaeus, 1766) Caranx hippos tropicus Nichols , 1920 The crevalle jack ( Caranx hippos ), also known as the common jack , black-tailed trevally , couvalli jack , black cavalli , jack crevale , or yellow cavalli is a common species of large marine fish classified within the jack family , Carangidae .

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    There’s no single explanation for why addiction treatment is mired in a kind of scientific dark age, why addicts are denied the help that modern medicine can offer. Family doctors tend to see addicts as a nuisance or a liability and don’t want them crowding their waiting rooms. In American culture, self-help runs deep.