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	Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
		The hippopotamus is an extremely large creature with a round body, short legs, and a big, broad head.
		When a hippopotamus opens its mouth very wide it may be trying to scare a potential rival away by showing off its canine teeth.
		The baby hippopotamus is born alive and underwater.
	www.thebigzoo.com /Animals/Hippopotamus.asp (420 words)

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		Hippopotamus have extraordinarily high rates of water loss (3 to 5 times the rate in man) due to their unique skin structure; this explains why they must spend the day in water (3).
		Pygmy hippopotamus usually live alone unless they are mating or with a calf, and they are not thought to hold territories (3).
		The hippopotamus is third in line among the larger varieties of earth’s creatures, being surpassed by both the elephant and the rhinoceros.
	www.lycos.com /info/hippopotamus.html (603 words)

	Hippopotamus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), from the Greek ‘ιπποπόταμος (hippopotamos, hippos meaning "horse" and potamos meaning "river"), is a large, plant-eating African mammal, one of only two extant, and three or four recently extinct, species in the family Hippopotamidae.
		As indicated by the name, ancient Greeks considered the hippopotamus to be related to the horse.
		A separate population is in Tanzania and Mozambique.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hippopotamus (2039 words)

	ADW: Hippopotamus amphibius: Information
		The hippopotamus is typically a slate brown color to muddy brown, with purplish hues often visible.
		The hippopotamus is capable of breeding year round, but it experiences seasonal breeding peaks during February and August.
		Hippopotamus is a valued food source for many of the native people of Africa.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Hippopotamus_amphibius.html (664 words)

	San Francisco Zoo \| Animals \| Nile Hippopotamus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The name hippopotamus means “river horse.” When hippos open their mouths wide, it is not a yawn, but is actually a threat gesture.
		The Hippopotamus is a huge, heavy animal with short legs and an enormous head with an extremely broad muzzle and a short neck.
		Distantly related to the pig, the Nile hippopotamus is a hoofed vegetarian, feeding on grass, fallen fruit, and occasionally on cultivated crops such as sugar cane or corn.
	www.sfzoo.org /cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=64 (623 words)

	Hippopotamus - MSN Encarta
		Its bigger relative—known as the river or common hippopotamus or, simply, hippopotamus—is one of the world's largest and heaviest land animals, weighing up to about 4,000 kg (about 8,800 lb).
		Although strictly a plant eater, the hippopotamus has massive jaws with formidable tusks.
		The word hippopotamus comes from two Greek words that mean “river horse.” While hippos do live in rivers, they differ from horses in being artiodactyls, mammals with an even number of hoofed toes on each foot.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761563889 (1486 words)

	Hippopotamus
		Hippopotamus - The common hippopotamus is the second largest living land animal, only rivalled by the great Indian rhinoceros (the elephant is the largest).
		Hippopotamus - The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is a large, plant-eating African mammal.
		Hippopotamus Amphibius - Hippopotamuses - The hippopotamus is the third largest land mammal in the world although it lives in a wet environment.
	www.hippopotamus-amphibius.com /hippopotamus-amphibius-habitat.htm (621 words)

	Hippopotamus
		Hippopotamus calves are born on land or in shallow water, and they generally suckle milk from their mothers while underwater.
		Hippopotamus are hunted illegally for meat, and also for their ivory teeth.
		The pygmy hippopotamus is endangered, mainly because of the heavy clearing of forest areas.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/hippo.htm (558 words)

	hippopotamus - Encyclopedia.com
		The large hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius, has a short-legged, broad body with a tough gray or brown hide.
		The hippopotamus is hunted for meat, and Africans have used the hide for shields and whips.
		The pygmy hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, is found in W Africa.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc.aspx?id=1E1:hippopot (291 words)

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		The common hippopotamus is the second largest living land animal, only rivalled by the great Indian rhinoceros (the elephant is the largest).
		The common brown or gray hippopotamus, once widely distributed south of the Sahara and along the Nile to its mouth, and now found south of latitude 17° north, is one of the largest four-footed animals.
		The hippopotamus reaches a length of 2.9 to 5 m (9.5 to 16 ft) and weighs 1000 to 4500 kg (2200 to 9900 lb.).
	www.lycos.com /info/hippopotamus--hippopotamuses.html (411 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Hippopotamus
		“Hippopotamus” comes from a Greek word meaning “water or river horse.” But hippos are not related to horses at all—in fact, their closest living relatives may be pigs or whales and dolphins!
		There are two species of hippopotamus: the river, or common, hippo Hippopotamus amphibius (featured on this fact sheet) and the much smaller pygmy hippo Hexaprotodon liberiensis.
		The hippopotamus is a social animal, living in groups of 10 to 30 animals.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-hippopotamus.html (1267 words)

	River hippopotamus
		The river hippopotamus spends most of the day wallowing, resting, and swimming in or near water.
		The river hippopotamus as a species is common, although H.
		The river hippopotamus was described by Linnaeus in 1758.
	www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Hippopotamus_amphibius.html (525 words)

	Fascinating facts about the Hippo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Washington's false teeth were not made of wood, as is commonly believed, but were carved from the tusks of a hippopotamus.
		Hippopotamus amphibius means "river horse." The hippo, weighing 1 800 kg (4,000 pounds) and more, lives in Africa, south of the Sahara and along the length of the Nile river, although its range once included Asia and large parts of Europe.
		Recent DNA evidence suggests that the hippopotamus is more closely related to cetaceans (whales and dolphins) than it is to any other artiodactyl (even-toed hoofed mammal).
	www.didyouknow.cd /animals/hippo.htm (495 words)

	Hippopotamus
		The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is a large, plant-eating African mammal.
		A second species, the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) with a shoulder height of 75 cm (30 inches) and 180 kilograms (400 pounds) is solitary and considerably less aquatic.
		The word hippopotamus comes, by way of Latin, from the ancient Greek ιππος ποταμος (hippos potamos), which means river horse.
	www.wordlookup.net /hi/hippopotamus.html (459 words)

	Hippopotamus
		A hippopotamus is almost hairless, only the area around the nostrils and the tip of the tail have hairs on them.
		However the bull hippopotamus was a symbol of Seth, the evil brother of Osiris.
		In Africa along the River Ubangi, there is a hippopotamus goddess named Sangu, who will attack the boats of fishermen who have not sacrificed to her before going on a trip to catch fish.
	www.dierinbeeld.nl /animal_files/mammals/hippopotamus (791 words)

	AWF: Wildlife: Hippopotamus
		Though the hippo spends most of its day in the water, it is more closely related to the pig than the horse.
		The hippopotamus, whose hide alone can weigh half a ton, is the third-largest living land mammal, after elephants and white rhinos.
		It was considered a female deity of pregnancy in ancient Egypt, but in modern times has been wiped out of that country because of the damage it inflicts on crops.
	www.awf.org /content/wildlife/detail/hippopotamus (770 words)

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