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HIPPOPOTAMUS Hippopotamus live in captivity for 60 years and 40 years in the wild.

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1 HIPPOPOTAMUS Hippopotamus live in captivity for 60 years and 40 years in the wild

2 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

3 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.

4 Hippos  Like many other mammals, the hippopotamus is a vegetarian and eats only plants, mammals that only eat plants are called herbivores.

5 Hippo TTTThey have strong teeth to help them grind up their tough food and special stomachs to digest it.

6 Hippos  Hippos are large animals no wonder they eat 60 kg per day.

7 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

8 Hippo  There is a another kind of hippo called the pygmy hippo.  It is much smaller than its bi relative.


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