How To Use Hippopotamus In A Sentence
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I had no friendly feeling for the hippopotamus, the kamichi, or horned screamer, and the zebu, who aimed at making me say H, K and
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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And those animals were caught, and as the elephant was drowning, the decision was made to destroy the elephant and also the hippopotamus.
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Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might craunch the babe.
The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
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It was as if she had asked him how he would like to be a hippopotamus.
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Q: What do you call a hippopotamus who rides a train?
Making Light: Open thread 137
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Upon both sides of the river the people now advanced, dragging the rope on the surface of the water until they reached the ambatch float that was swimming to and fro, according to the movements of the hippopotamus below.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
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But I remember she said there was a hippopotamus and a rhinoceros.
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Twenty-two days spent tracking elephants, hippopotamuses, and crocodiles in the Okavango Delta.
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Central to the debate has been the demise of the Australian megafauna, including animals such as marsupial lions, hippopotamus-sized wombats and the 2m-tall giant kangaroo Procoptodon goliah.
Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
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A terrified gamekeeper had a lucky escape after he managed to sprint to safety from a charging hippopotamus.
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I generally perform with all the elegance and grace of a hippopotamus.
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This year we have scheduled a tiger, three lynxes, a cheetah, two pumas, a hippopotamus, and 500 rabid rats.
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These creatures include fish, crocodiles, turtles, hippopotamuses, monkeys, rodents, and antelopes.
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Initial genetic studies have provided evidence that the marine mammals are most closely related to hippopotamuses.
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Others - notably of sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus - could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
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Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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The hippopotamus is perfectly at home in the water, mating and giving birth there.
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The players gather around a table or sit in a circle, each one being given the name of an animal; the sport of the game will consist largely in choosing unusual or difficult names, such as yak, gnu, camelopard, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, Brazilian ant-eater, kangaroo, etc.
Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
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Until recently, zoologists thought the membership list of the order Artiodactyla was limited to hoofed mammals with an even number of toes: camels, cows, deer, giraffes, goats, hippopotamuses, pigs, sheep.
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They were happiest dashing off into the unknown—their diaries are filled with accounts of momentous discoveries made after enduring punishing hardships: getting lost, eating raw vulture flesh, trekking through rain forests shoeless and clothesless, being sucked into whirlpools for hours on end, fending off rabid buffalo attacks, falling with their horses into hippopotamus wallows, having all their hair eaten by rats while sleeping and negotiating with armed, xenophobic natives ready to stone foreigners for trespassing on their sacred farmland.
The Fruit Hunters
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Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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Animals with relatively short distal bones, such as elephants and hippopotamuses, have more columnar legs and do little running.
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Half hippopotamus, half seal, yet in no way related to either, something between a pachyderm and cetacean, the dugong is a herbivorous marine mammal, commonly known as “the sea cow,” because of its resemblance in some particulars to that useful domesticated animal.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
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Both could probably fly as well as a helium-filled hippopotamus.
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Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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The name hippopotamus comes from Greek and means ‘river horse.’
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What we call a hippopotamus — “river horse” — the Germans call “Flusspferd,” which literally means “river horse.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Misused”:
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Often, the effect is like a bird buzzing a hippopotamus, the electronics here, there and everywhere, the guitar static and sulky.
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Toronto Zoo gave their chameleon to Sofia Zoo as a sign of gratitude for the female hippopotamus sent to impregnate a Toronto Zoo hippopotamus last year.
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Page 326 thicker than that of a hippopotamus, and a body to which fervid heat is a comfort rather than an annoyance, he droningly lounges over the prescribed task, on which the intrepid Englishman, unaccustomed and uninured to the burning sun, consumes his impatient energy, and too often sacrifices his life.
Social relations in our Southern States,
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A lovelorn hippopotamus peers over a wall at the partner from whom he has just been separated.
Times, Sunday Times
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Arriving in step with East African flora were the creatures of the East African savannas: gazelle, giant deer, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, wart hog.
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Whereas the goat, dog, cow, and cat are domesticated, the antelope, leopard, elephant, waterbuck, manatee, and hippopotamus must be hunted.
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Artiodactyls range from the rabbit-sized ‘mouse deer’ of southeast Asia to the three-ton giant hippopotamus and ten-foot giraffes.
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The giant hippopotamus is the only aquatic artiodactyl, spending most of its time in water.
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[Page 105] up where the tall rushes wave, twisted together by the twining morning-glory vines; far up where the alligators make great nests in the river-bank, and lay their eggs and stretch themselves in the sunshine, half asleep inside their scaly armor; far up where the hippopotamus is standing in his drowsy dream on the bottom of the river, with the water covering him, head and all.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air
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A delightful unguent jar from Mostagedda carved from ivory in the form of a hippopotamus argues that the animal attracted favourable attention.
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Elephants, ostriches, leopards and lions were imported in the first century B.C., followed by hippopotamus, rhinoceros, camels and giraffes.
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Unable to reach them, the hippopotamus slashed at his own flanks, inflicting terrible gaping wounds in his sides so that for fifty paces around the galley the waters were incarnadined, and both Lostris and Tanus were painted entirely crimson from the tops of their heads to the soles of their feet by the spurting blood.
River God
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I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
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The lower jawbone of the hippopotamus reveals six incisor teeth, whereas the hippopotamus that survives in Africa has only four incisors.
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The lower jawbone of the hippopotamus reveals six incisor teeth, whereas the hippopotamus that survives in Africa has only four incisors.
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If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
The Water Babies
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Yet because the reasoning is …. exactly the same as that used to show the evolutionary relationships of mice and bats, whales and hippopotamuses, and, yes, annelid worms and humans. progress can be imagined.
Assessing Causality
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The island parks were established to protect the breeding habitats of the Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus, hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius, puff-adder Bitis arietans, cobra Naja haje and sawscaled viper Echis pyramidum.
Lake Turkana National Parks, Kenya
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Watching her husband relaxing in the shallow waters she was reminded of a hippopotamus wallowing in mud.
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The hippopotamus is the familiar of Hapi, the goddess of the Nile.
River God
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She snorkelled with hippopotamuses and charmed snakes out of thorn trees for the camera.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suddenly, a lantern flared and a hippopotamus loomed up in front of them.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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The head or haft is either of ivory, the tooth of the duyong (sea-cow), that of the hippopotamus, the snout of the ikan layer (voilier), of black coral, or of fine-grained wood.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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[Illustration: HIPPOPOTAMUS] "It was in the Buffalo Swamp," continued he, "that I saw the splendid birds you call sultan cocks, and I set my heart on catching one alive, which, as they seemed to have little fear of my approach, I managed by means of a wire snare.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
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The long neck of the giraffe and the short neck of the hippopotamus are both explained by the theory.
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Hugh Bradley was in the pool recently and said the two boys had yawns as wide as a hippopotamus' mouth.
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I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
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Kirsten Anderson says that this baby pygmy hippopotamus is "ridiculously cute.
Boing Boing
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The hippopotamus, for example, has declined by 95 percent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1994, when 30,000 roamed wild.
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The word hippopotamus is familiar to you -- and even to small children -- because it has often been used, and because you have seen circus pictures of it.
The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders
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The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.
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He was called a hippopotamus, and he swam in a tank of water, next door to a pool in which lived some mud turtles and alligators.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home
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His animals were the pig, the donkey, the hippopotamus, and the desert oryx.
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Watching her husband relaxing in the shallow waters she was reminded of a hippopotamus wallowing in mud.
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When the Greeks first saw a huge animal in Egypt, they called it hippopotamus, the Greek word for ` water horse. '
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2
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Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon — all, for the moment, in juxtaposition.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Africans never succeeded in domesticating their animals, like the rhino and the hippopotamus!
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This year we have scheduled a tiger, three lynxes, a cheetah, two pumas, a hippopotamus, and 500 rabid rats.
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Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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In these papyri, artists have great fun imagining the Devourer – part crocodile, part lion, part hippopotamus.
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Who else had a voice that could express the rage of a baboon, a leopard and a hippopotamus in one rise and fell swoop?
GALILEE
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(Just think of the Hippopotamus, the horse or "hippos" that lives in the rivers.)
Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations
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The presence of the manatee and the hippopotamus in the lower levels of the stratigraphic profile at the Ogoloma site is also significant.
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In ‘The Hippopotamus’, for instance, this most untuneful animal is associated with ‘sound-slumbering music’, an altogether unexpected conjunction.
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In fact, only a handful of the 5,000 or so mammals - mostly semi-aquatic species such as whales, walruses, and hippopotamuses - are not covered in dense fur.
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The waters were haunted by huge pachyderms, such as the dinotherium and hippopotamus; while the rhinoceros and mastodon roamed through the woodlands.
Geographical Evolution
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The picture on the left shows a family trying to feed the first ever hippopotamus to be tamed from the wild.
Jessica The Tame Hippo
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For the information of my readers, I must observe that a cowskin is a large whip, made like a riding whip, out of the hide of the hippopotamus, or sea-cow, and is proverbial for the severity of punishment it is capable of inflicting.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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This year we have scheduled a tiger, three lynxes, a cheetah, two pumas, a hippopotamus, and 500 rabid rats.
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Other mammals include forest elephant Loxodonta africana cyclotis (EN), estimated at 3,250 individuals in 1989, now reduced for their meat and ivory from 350 to 2 families, hippotamus Hippopotamus amphibious, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, leopard Panthera pardus, forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, bongo Tragelaphus euryceros and seven species of duiker, all taken for food.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Such is the hippopotamus, and such is the hyrax, the remarkable rock-haunting animal, which in the authorised translation of the Scriptures is called the "coney," and which in the Revised Version is allowed in the margin to retain its Hebrew name, "shaphan.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886
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Half hippopotamus, half seal, yet in no way related to either, something between a pachyderm and cetacean, the dugong is a herbivorous marine mammal, commonly known as "the sea cow," because of its resemblance in some particulars to that useful domesticated animal.
Confessions of a Beachcomber
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It was unearthed by workmen in Leeds in 1852, and the bones are believed to have been part of a Great Northern Hippopotamus.
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A shivery gray fellow named Hyppo, the Hypothermic Hippopotamus (see below), who sips whiskey from a flask and angrily fires wool socks into the crowd.
Little-Known Facts About the Twins
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The name hippopotamus was mentioned at least twenty times in the lecture as a dramatic climax.
Watch Yourself Go By
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Nevertheless, the marriage of hippopotamus with whale is clear.
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Watching her husband relaxing in the shallow waters she was reminded of a hippopotamus wallowing in mud.
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Other mammals include forest elephant Loxodonta africana cyclotis (EN), estimated at 3,250 individuals in 1989, now reduced for their meat and ivory from 350 to 2 families, hippotamus Hippopotamus amphibious, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, leopard Panthera pardus, forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni, bongo Tragelaphus euryceros and seven species of duiker, all taken for food.
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
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Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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A naked sword leaned against a stool by the side of a shield; whips of hippopotamus leather, cymbals, bells, and necklaces were displayed pell-mell on baskets of esparto-grass; a felt rug lay soiled with crumbs of black bread; some copper money was carelessly heaped upon
Salammbo
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I hear the inevitable galumph of her broad ass up the stairs, the click of the tiny patent flats she somehow wedges onto her hippopotamus feet.
Anhedonia (excerpt)
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Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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As the flesh of the hippopotamus, which is said to resemble pork in flavor, was much desired as food by the soldiers under Baker's charge, he had a small explosive shell constructed, which, fired into the creature's brain, seldom failed to leave its huge body floating dead on the surface of the river.
Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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Dwarf elephant, hippopotamus and deer disappeared from Mediterranean Islands around the time of human colonization.
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These creatures include fish, crocodiles, turtles, hippopotamuses, monkeys, rodents, and antelopes.
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Visitors can watch a hippopotamus in the West African River Experience area of the Adventure Aquarium.