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A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius)
Examples of hippos in a Sentence
Hippos must submerge regularly because their skin is thin and virtually hairless and therefore vulnerable to overheating and dehydration.
On our last full day of the trip we drove to the Mara River to see the abundant hippos there.
The site of Hippos, one of the cities of Decapolis, is fixed by Clermont-Ganneau at Khurbet Susieh.
We played a series of games including hungry hippos, mini football matches and learning different types of training skills.
I can watch hippos for ages, playing their sinister, slow-motion, peek-a-boo game of silently submerging and reappearing.
It could actually withstand the weight of 14 large hippos.
There were ongoing bouts of bellowing, snorting, sneezing -- or whatever you might call the many sounds hippos make.
The hippopotamus gives birth underwater and nurses its young in the river, but the young hippos must come up periodically for air.
They are not social animals, preferring to live alone or in pairs avoiding other hippos.
Pygmy hippos are extremely rare in the wild, mainly due to deforestation for the timber trade.
You can't go wrong with hippos and belly buttons as topics for toddlers.
If you ever played the children's game Hungry Hungry Hippos, then this shirt will speak to you.
The pattern of these shorts are incredibly cute as cranes, hippos and even turtles all appear to be dancing and smiling across the surface.
These include a Jungle Design Studio, which has monkeys, hippos, butterflies, lions and explorers; and an Ocean Design Studio, with penguins, dolphins, fish, seals, turtles and seahorses.
It features an African exhibit with giraffes, chimpanzees, pygmy hippos and dwarf crocodiles.
A year later Octavian restored to the Jewish kingdom Jericho, Gadara, Hippos, Samaria, Gaza Anthedon, Joppa and Straton's Tower (Caesarea).
It all gazes out on to a permanent lagoon inhabited by hippos that loll submerged, emitting plumes of water and deep guttural snorts.