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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.
The giant hippopotamus is the only aquatic artiodactyl, spending most of its time in water.
Elephants, ostriches, leopards and lions were imported in the first century B.C., followed by hippopotamus, rhinoceros, camels and giraffes.
His animals were the pig, the donkey, the hippopotamus, and the desert oryx.
This year we have scheduled a tiger, three lynxes, a cheetah, two pumas, a hippopotamus, and 500 rabid rats.
Whereas the goat, dog, cow, and cat are domesticated, the antelope, leopard, elephant, waterbuck, manatee, and hippopotamus must be hunted.
The presence of the manatee and the hippopotamus in the lower levels of the stratigraphic profile at the Ogoloma site is also significant.
The hippopotamus is perfectly at home in the water, mating and giving birth there.
The sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
The lower jawbone of the hippopotamus reveals six incisor teeth, whereas the hippopotamus that survives in Africa has only four incisors.
The long neck of the giraffe and the short neck of the hippopotamus are both explained by the theory.
Africans never succeeded in domesticating their animals, like the rhino and the hippopotamus!
Often, the effect is like a bird buzzing a hippopotamus, the electronics here, there and everywhere, the guitar static and sulky.
Dwarf elephant, hippopotamus and deer disappeared from Mediterranean Islands around the time of human colonization.
A terrified gamekeeper had a lucky escape after he managed to sprint to safety from a charging hippopotamus.
And those animals were caught, and as the elephant was drowning, the decision was made to destroy the elephant and also the hippopotamus.
I generally perform with all the elegance and grace of a hippopotamus.
Recent testimony in the past, traces the presence of degrees of Quaternary animals like deer and hippopotamus.
Twelve children and one adult died after a hippopotamus overturned a boat near the Niger capital, Niamey, officials have said.
I SHOOT the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use leaden ones, his hide is sure to flatten 'em.
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Another kind of hippopotamus, called the pygmy hippopotamus, is found in Western Africa.
The Indians avoided Klamath Lake because it was haunted by a monster that was half dragon, half hippopotamus.
You have never tried to demonstrate to a hypnotic that a table is not a hippopotamus.
Man was contemporary with the cave bear, the cave lion, the amphibious hippopotamus, the mammoth.
Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might craunch the babe.
A wounded hippopotamus stirs up the water so that a small canoe may capsize in the swell from his forequarters.
The Mandenga are supposed to have either the manati or the hippopotamus as tanna.
In the zoological garden there is a baby hippopotamus, which is fed on rice and milk.
It was as if a dweller in a Harlem flat had been presented with a hippopotamus.
I should like a rhunossyross on the half shell, or a hippopotamus on toast, or a horse and wagon roasted whole.
According to Michael Boyn, the hippopotamus has been found in the rivers of China.
The hippopotamus, or river-horse, grazes upon the land and browses on the shrubs, yet is no less dangerous than the crocodile.
Amongst other spoor, he was pleased to observe that of the hippopotamus.
Why not ask Farmer Green to shoot off the tail of the hippopotamus?
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