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Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 6 Coma: United Artists: Michael Crichton (director/screenplay); Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Hari Rhodes, Richard Doyle, Lance LeGault, Tom Selleck, Joanna Kerns, Ed Harris, Philip Baker Hall: September 30, 1955: Universal Pictures
Hippos weigh between 3,000 and 10,000 pounds, making them the second largest animal on land. Despite this enormous size, however, hippos are herbivores and aren’t naturally aggressive. But they ...
Small boats can easily be capsized by hippos and passengers can be injured or killed by the animals, or drown in the water. In one 2014 case in Niger, a boat was capsized by a hippo and 13 people were killed. [103] Hippos will often raid farm crops if the opportunity arises, and humans may come into conflict with them on these occasions.
The common hippopotamus gives birth and mates only in the water, but pygmy hippos mate and give birth on both land and water. Young pygmy hippos can swim almost immediately. At birth, pygmy hippos weigh 4.5–6.2 kg (9.9–13.7 lb) with males weighing about 0.25 kg (0.55 lb) more than females.
Even the king of the jungle can have a bad day when trying to cross a river guarded by an aggressive hippo. Three lions found out the hard way that this river crossing was a giant hippo’s territory.
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 ...
A baby pygmy hippo living at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand continues to become a viral sensation. The 2-month-old pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng was born in July, according to NBC News, and ...
The Peter Potamus Show is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and starring Peter Potamus, a purple hippopotamus. [ 1 ] The Peter Potamus Show is divided into three segments: Peter Potamus and So-So , Breezly and Sneezly and Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey . [ 2 ]