"a ""cow"", and a baby as a ""calf"". A group of hippopotami is known as a ""herd"" or a ""bloat"". The pygmy hippopotamus is a member of the family Hippopotamidae where it is classified as a member of either the genus ""Choeropsis"" (""resembling a hog"") or, the genus ""Hexaprotodon"" (""six front teeth""). Members of Hippopotamidae are sometimes known as hippopotamids. Sometimes the sub-family Hippopotaminae is used. Further, some taxonomists group hippopotami and anthracotheres in the superfamily ""Anthracotheroidea"" or ""Hippopotamoidea"". A sister species of the pygmy hippopotamus may have been the little-studied Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus (""Hexaprotodon madagascariensis"" or ""Hippopotamus madagascariensis""), one"
"Surprise egg"" of the Italian chocolate company Ferrero SpA. Hippopotamus The common hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus amphibius""), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (""Choeropsis liberiensis"" or ""Hexaprotodon liberiensis""). The name comes from the ancient Greek for ""river horse"" (). After the elephant and rhinoceros, the common hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal and the heaviest extant artiodactyl. Despite their physical resemblance to pigs and other terrestrial even-toed ungulates, the closest living relatives of the Hippopotamidae are"
"a short plural. Hippopotamuses are gregarious, living in groups of up to thirty animals. A group is called a pod, herd, dale, or bloat. The hippopotamus is the type genus of the family Hippopotamidae. The pygmy hippopotamus belongs to a different genus in Hippopotamidae, either ""Choeropsis"" or ""Hexaprotodon."" Hippopotamidae are sometimes known as hippopotamids. Sometimes, the subfamily Hippopotaminae is used. Further, some taxonomists group hippopotamuses and anthracotheres in the superfamily Anthracotheroidea. Hippopotamidae are classified along with other even-toed ungulates in the order Artiodactyla. Other artiodactyls include camels, cattle, deer and pigs, although hippopotamuses are not closely related to these groups."
"Hippopotamus The common hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus amphibius""), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (""Choeropsis liberiensis"" or ""Hexaprotodon liberiensis""). The name comes from the ancient Greek for ""river horse"" (). After the elephant and rhinoceros, the common hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal and the heaviest extant artiodactyl. Despite their physical resemblance to pigs and other terrestrial even-toed ungulates, the closest living relatives of the Hippopotamidae are cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises, etc.) from which they diverged"
"was born six weeks premature on January 24, 2017, with a birth weight of ; the recorded range of birth weights for the species at that time was . She was unable to stand and required bottle feeding with milk from her mother, supplemented with infant formula. This was the first time a hippopotamus had been milked and the milk analyzed. The following month, while teething, she began refusing her bottle and became dehydrated; a catheter for the delivery of intravenous fluids was inserted with the assistance of members of the vascular access team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. The preemie"
"male hippopotamus spermatozoa is active year-round. Studies of hippos in Zambia and South Africa also showed evidence of births occurring at the start of the wet season. After becoming pregnant, a female hippopotamus will typically not begin ovulation again for 17 months. Mating occurs in the water, with the female submerged for most of the encounter, her head emerging periodically to draw breath. Female hippos isolate themselves to give birth and return within 10–14 days. Baby hippos are born underwater at a weight between and an average length of around , and must swim to the surface to take their"
"secure, top secret facility somewhere in North Africa. The Hybrids are composed of numerous African animal species including Warthogs, Elephants, Camels, Zebras, Rhinos, Hippos, Giraffes, Hyenas, and Crocodiles. The process involves implanting embryos into the wombs of kidnapped local women who are disposed of after giving birth. Each child is branded after birth marking them as the property of MAPPO. Hip Flask's scar is distorted so that """"Hippopotomas Hybrid Flask #7A"""" instead reads just """"Hip Flask #7A"""", hence his name. These Elephantmen are trained from birth to be soldiers and killers, they are indoctrinated in an Orwellian mindset to think"
"Hippopotamidae Hippopotamuses are stout, naked-skinned, and amphibious artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologically and are pseudoruminants like camels, their closest living relatives are the cetaceans. Hippopotamuses are the only living members of the family Hippopotamidae. There are two living species of hippopotamus in two genera; the pygmy hippo, ""Choeropsis liberiensis"" of the forests of west Africa, and the common hippo, ""Hippopotamus amphibius"". Hippopotamuses are large mammals, with short, stumpy legs, and barrel-shaped bodies. They have large heads, with broad mouths, and nostrils placed at the top of their"
"a Greek Orthodox Saint who, according to local myth, had fled from Syria to escape his persecutors, but had been stranded on the hostile rocky coast of Cyprus. The collected bones are ground into a powder believed to have medicinal powers. To honour the local tradition and to refer to the site, Sondaar and Boekschoten named their new genus ""Phanourios"", following the Greek spelling. They gave the specific name ""minutus"", but this was later changed to ""minor"" following rules of priority. Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus The Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus or Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus minor"") is an extinct species of hippopotamus"
"the review of Boisserie (2005). Hippopotamidae Hippopotamuses are stout, naked-skinned, and amphibious artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologically and are pseudoruminants like camels, their closest living relatives are the cetaceans. Hippopotamuses are the only living members of the family Hippopotamidae. There are two living species of hippopotamus in two genera; the pygmy hippo, ""Choeropsis liberiensis"" of the forests of west Africa, and the common hippo, ""Hippopotamus amphibius"". Hippopotamuses are large mammals, with short, stumpy legs, and barrel-shaped bodies. They have large heads, with broad mouths, and nostrils placed"
"Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus The Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus or Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus minor"") is an extinct species of hippopotamus that inhabited the island of Cyprus until the early Holocene. The Cyprus dwarf hippo was roughly the same size as the extant pygmy hippopotamus. Unlike the modern pygmy hippo, the Cyprus dwarf became small through the process of insular dwarfism. This same process is believed to cause the dwarfism found in some dwarf elephants, the pygmy mammoth, and ""Homo floresiensis"". The animal is estimated to have measured tall and long. ""H. minor"" is the smallest hippopotamus of all known insular hippopotamuses."
"occur. The common hippopotamus gives birth and mates only in the water, but pygmy hippos mate and give birth on both land and water. Young pygmy hippos can swim almost immediately. At birth, pygmy hippos weigh 4.5–6.2 kg (9.9–13.7 lb) with males weighing about 0.25 kg (0.55 lb) more than females. Pygmy hippos are fully weaned between six and eight months of age; before weaning they do not accompany their mother when she leaves the water to forage, but instead hide in the water by themselves. The mother returns to the hiding spot about three times a day and calls"
"Archaeopotamus Archaeopotamus is an extinct genus of Hippopotamidae that lived between 7.5 and 1.8 million years ago in Africa and the Middle East. The genus was described in 2005 to encompass species of hippos that were previously grouped in ""Hexaprotodon"". ""Archaeopotamus"" means ""the ancient of the river"". Of all identified hippos, only ""Kenyapotamus"" is older. ""Kenyapotamus"", however, is only known from partial fossils; ""Archaeopotamus"" is the oldest well-identified hippo. Many prehistoric hippo fossils are known primarily through fossils of the lower jaw. ""Archaeopotamus"", like ""Hexaprotodon"", has three pairs of incisors. Unlike other ""Hexaprotodon"", ""Archaeopotamus"" has a highly elongate mandibular symphysis."
"in U.S. zoos today. Several folktales have been collected about the pygmy hippopotamus. One tale says that pygmy hippos carry a shining diamond in their mouths to help travel through thick forests at night; by day the pygmy hippo has a secret hiding place for the diamond, but if a hunter catches a pygmy hippo at night the diamond can be taken. Villagers sometimes believed that baby pygmy hippos do not nurse but rather lick secretions off the skin of the mother. Pygmy hippopotamus The pygmy hippopotamus (""Choeropsis liberiensis"" or ""Hexaprotodon liberiensis"") is a small hippopotamid which is native to"
"offspring in 1871, but the calf died after 2 days. A second calf died the following year, but a third, born on 5 November 1872, survived. It was a female named Guy Fawkes. Adhela survived Obaysch by 4 years, dying on 16 December 1882. Guy Fawkes died on 20 March 1908. Obaysch once escaped from captivity in London Zoo and according to legend a keeper was used as bait to lure him back into his enclosure. Obaysch Obaysch (1849? – 11 March 1878) was the first hippopotamus seen in Great Britain since prehistoric times, and the first in Europe since"
"day. ""Hippocampus hippocampus"" are known to be ambush predators whom feed on live, moving food. They will remain still until a small animal passes within reach and then grab it. They do not have teeth or a stomach so they use their snout to suck their food straight into their gut. Since they lack a stomach the prey will pass through the digestive system very fast. Short snouted seahorses are considered ovoviviparous meaning that the female deposits eggs into a pouch on the males stomach, called a brood pouch, and the male goes through pregnancy and labour. Sexual maturation occurs"
"Pleistocene also saw a number of dwarf species evolve on several Mediterranean islands, including Crete (""Hippopotamus creutzburgi""), Cyprus (the Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus, ""Hippopotamus minor""), Malta (""Hippopotamus melitensis""), and Sicily (""Hippopotamus pentlandi""). Of these, the Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus survived until the end of the Pleistocene or early Holocene. Evidence from an archaeological site, Aetokremnos, continues to cause debate on whether or not the species was encountered, and was driven to extinction, by man. Hippopotami are among the largest living land mammals, being only smaller than elephants and some rhinoceroses. Mean adult weight is around and for males and females respectively, very"
"the pygmy hippopotamus may be the genus ""Saotherium"". ""Saotherium"" and ""Choeropsis"" are significantly more basal than ""Hippopotamus"" and ""Hexaprotodon"", and thus more closely resemble the ancestral species of hippos. Several species of small hippopotamids have also become extinct in the Mediterranean in the late Pleistocene or early Holocene. Though these species are sometimes known as ""pygmy hippopotami"" they are not believed to be closely related to ""C. liberiensis"". These include the Cretan dwarf hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus creutzburgi""), the Sicilian hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus pentlandi""), the Maltese hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus melitensis"") and the Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus minor""). These species, though comparable in size to"
"President William Tubman dispatched a search party to find a new male pygmy hippopotamus to ship to Washington. The pygmy hippopotamus, named Totota, arrived in Brooklyn, New York, on February 4, 1960, and traveled via station wagon to Washington the next day, where he would continue Billy's breeding legacy with the zoo's female pygmy hippos, two of which were Billy's daughters. Billy (pygmy hippo) Billy, or William Johnson Hippopotamus, (1920s – October 11, 1955) was a pygmy hippopotamus given to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Captured in Liberia, he was given to Coolidge by Harvey Samuel Firestone in 1927. Billy spent"
"Pygmy hippopotamus The pygmy hippopotamus (""Choeropsis liberiensis"" or ""Hexaprotodon liberiensis"") is a small hippopotamid which is native to the forests and swamps of West Africa, primarily in Liberia, with small populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. The pygmy hippo is reclusive and nocturnal. It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being its much larger relative, the common hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus amphibius"") or Nile hippopotamus. The pygmy hippopotamus displays many terrestrial adaptations, but like the hippo, it is semiaquatic and relies on water to keep its skin moist and its body temperature cool."
"Billy (pygmy hippo) Billy, or William Johnson Hippopotamus, (1920s – October 11, 1955) was a pygmy hippopotamus given to U.S. President Calvin Coolidge. Captured in Liberia, he was given to Coolidge by Harvey Samuel Firestone in 1927. Billy spent most of his life in the National Zoo in Washington D.C.. In addition to his fame as an exotic presidential pet—which afforded him a trip to the 1939 New York World's Fair—Billy is also notable as the common ancestor to most pygmy hippos in American zoos. By the time of his death in 1955, Billy had sired 23 calves, 13 of"
"Infant An infant (from the Latin word ""infans"", meaning ""unable to speak"" or ""speechless"") is the more formal or specialised synonym for ""baby"", the very young offspring of a human. The term may also be used to refer to juveniles of other organisms. A newborn is, in colloquial use, an infant who is only hours, days, or up to one month old. In medical contexts, newborn or neonate (from Latin, ""neonatus"", newborn) refers to an infant in the first 28 days after birth; the term applies to premature, full term, and postmature infants; before birth, the term ""fetus"" is used."
"Fiona (hippopotamus) Fiona is a hippopotamus born at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, on January 24, 2017. The first Nile hippo imaged on ultrasound pre-natally and the first born at the zoo in 75 years, she was born prematurely and cared for with the assistance of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Fiona's parents are Henry and Bibi. (Henry died at 36 in October 2017.) She is the first Nile hippo to be born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 75 years, and the first of the species to be scanned in the womb using ultrasound. She"
"bear very specific meanings, much like Taweret (whose name is formed as a pacificatory address intended to calm the ferocity of the goddess): Ipet's name (""the Nurse"") demonstrates her connection to birth, child rearing, and general caretaking, and Reret's name (""the Sow"") is derived from the Egyptians' classification of hippopotami as water pigs. However, the origin of Hedjet's name (""the White One"") is not as clear and could justly be debated. Evidence for the cult of hippopotamus goddesses exists from the time of the Old Kingdom (c. 2686 – 2181 BCE) in the corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts entitled"
"births, since hippos are relatively expensive to maintain. Like many zoo animals, hippos were traditionally displayed in concrete exhibits. In the case of hippos, they usually had a pool of water and patch of grass. In the 1980s, zoo exhibits increasingly reflected native habitats. The Toledo Zoo Hippoquarium, features a 360,000 gallon pool. In 1987, the Toledo Zoo saw the first underwater birth by a captive hippo. The exhibit was so popular, the hippos became the logo of the Toledo Zoo. A red hippopotamus represented the Ancient Egyptian god Set; the thigh is the ""phallic leg of Set"" symbolic of"
"larval growth. Hymenoptera Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that are otherwise inaccessible. The ovipositor is often modified into a stinger. The young develop through holometabolism (complete metamorphosis)—that is, they have a worm-like larval stage and an inactive pupal stage before they mature. The name Hymenoptera refers to the wings of the insects, but the original derivation is ambiguous. All references agree that the derivation involves the Ancient Greek πτερόν (""pteron"") for wing. The Ancient Greek ὑμήν (""hymen"") for membrane provides a plausible etymology for the term because species in this order have"
"to ""Hexaprotodon"", a genus that consisted of prehistoric hippos mostly native to Asia. This assertion was widely accepted, until Boisserie asserted in 2005 that the pygmy hippopotamus was not a member of ""Hexaprotodon"", after a thorough examination of the phylogeny of Hippopotamidae. He suggested instead that the pygmy hippopotamus was a distinct genus, and returned the animal to ""Choeropsis"". All agree that the modern pygmy hippopotamus, be it ""H. liberiensis"" or ""C. liberiensis"", is the only extant member of its genus. A distinct subspecies of pygmy hippopotamus existed in Nigeria until at least the 20th century, though the validity of"
"Hippopotamus antiquus Hippopotamus antiquus, sometimes called the European hippopotamus, was a species of hippopotamus that ranged across Europe, becoming extinct some time before the last ice age at the end of the Pleistocene epoch. ""H. antiquus"" ranged from the Iberian Peninsula to the British Isles to the Rhine River to Greece. Similar in size and form to ""Hippopotamus gorgops"", ""H. antiquus"" on average was larger than the modern common hippopotamus (""Hippopotamus amphibius""). ""H. antiquus"" is believed to have first appeared around 1.8 million years ago, compared to 2 million years ago for ""H. amphibius"". Beginning in the Middle Pleistocene, ""H."
"in American zoos. When Billy first came to the zoo, however, keepers did not know much about pygmy hippopotamus husbandry. A mate for Billy, a female named Hannah, was acquired by the zoo on September 4, 1929. Billy's and Hannah's first calf was born on August 26, 1931, but did not survive the week. ""Inability to survive the neglect of an errant mother was the cause given for baby Hippo's demise"", eulogized ""The Washington Post"". Over the next two years, two more calves would follow, both of which died in infancy. Billy's third calf was killed when Hannah rolled on"
"Because ""H. lemerlei"" reached its size through dwarfing, it is properly known as the Malagasy dwarf hippopotamus, though this term is sometimes applied to the other species of Malagasy hippos. Bones of ""H. lemerlei"" have been dated to about 1,000 years ago (980±200 radiocarbon years before present). Also called the Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus, this species was originally classified as ""Hippopotamus"" along with ""H. lemerlei"", and indeed the two species were roughly the same size. A review of their morphology and habitat, however, suggested a closer relationship to the modern pygmy hippopotamus. Like the modern pygmy hippopotamus, the Malagasy pygmy hippo"
"Lithopedion A lithopedion – also spelled lithopaedion or lithopædion – ( = stone; = small child, infant), or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as part of a foreign body reaction, shielding the mother's body from the dead tissue of the fetus and preventing infection. Lithopedia may occur from 14 weeks gestation to full term. It is not unusual for a stone baby to remain undiagnosed for decades and to be found well after"
"are a case of parallel evolution. The Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus is classified along with the modern Liberian pygmy hippopotamus, but researchers sometimes place the Liberian hippo in two different genera. The pygmy hippopotamus was originally classified as ""Choeropsis"" by Samuel G. Morton in 1849. In 1977, the pygmy hippopotamus was reclassified as a member of ""Hexaprotodon"" along with fossil species from Asia. Further examination, however, has discovered differences between the pygmy hippopotamus and the Asian hippos, prompting its reclassification by some as ""Choeropsis"". In 1990, Faure and Guerin described a third species of Malagasy hippopotamus, ""Hippopotamus laloumena"" (""laloumena"" is a"
"a clade, with ""Libycosaurus"" being more closely related to hippos. Their common ancestor would have lived in the Miocene, about . Hippopotamids are therefore deeply nested within the family Anthracotheriidae. The Hippopotamidae are believed to have evolved in Africa; the oldest known hippopotamid is the genus ""Kenyapotamus"", which lived in Africa from 16 to . While hippopotamid species spread across Asia and Europe, no hippopotamuses have ever been discovered in the Americas, although various anthracothere genera emigrated into North America during the early Oligocene. From 7.5 to , an ancestor to the modern hippopotamus, ""Archaeopotamus"", lived in Africa and the"