Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamidae is a family of stout, naked-skinned, and semiaquatic artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologic
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Choeropsis
Hippopotamus
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The hippopotamus, often shortened to hippo, further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus and river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is on
Hippopotamidae
…There are two living species of hippopotamid in two genera; the pygmy hippo, Choeropsis liberiensis of the forests of west Africa, and the common hippo, Hippopotamus amphibius. The term hippopotamus can also be applied to hippopotamids in general, although it is most frequently used for the common hippo and its respective…
Portrait Hippopotamus in the water
H. a. kiboko territorial male with females and calves, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Evolutionary relationships among hippo and Cetacea (whales, dolphins)
Anthracotherium magnum from the Oligocene of Europe