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HIPPOPOTAMUS. Hippopotamus live in captivity for 60 years and 40 years in the wild. WHAT THEY EAT. MAINLY GRASS AND SOME WATER PLANTS. HABITAT. IN AND AROUND LAKES , THE PYGMY HIPPO LIVES IN FOREST STREAM.
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HIPPOPOTAMUS Hippopotamus live in captivity for 60 years and 40 years in the wild
WHAT THEY EAT • MAINLY GRASS AND SOME WATER PLANTS. • HABITAT. IN AND AROUND LAKES , THE PYGMY HIPPO LIVES IN FOREST STREAM. • SIZE. UP TO 4M IN LENGTH 1.4M AT THE SHOULDER .WEIGHTS UP TO 4 TONES , PYGMY HIPPO IS 1.5M LONG O.8 AT THE SHOULDER AND WEIGHTS UP TO 270KG
HIPPOS Hippos take great care of there calves. They give them swimming lessons and teach them to stay near to there mum. A male hippo can sometimes kill a baby hippo. The common hippo can be very dangerous. The changes with all its heavy weight, showing its huge tusks hippos cannot really be tamed or trained.
Hippos • Like many other mammals, the hippopotamus is a vegetarian and eats only plants, mammals that only eat plants are called herbivores.
Hippo • They have strong teeth to help them grind up their tough food and special stomachs to digest it.
Hippos • Hippos are large animals no wonder they eat 60 kg per day.
Pygmy hippo • A mournful-looking pygmy hippo coreopsis liberiersis, from west Africa. Its well-oiled look is due to the secretion of a clear, viscous
Hippo • There is a another kind of hippo called the pygmy hippo. • It is much smaller than its bi relative.