hippopotamus
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The remains of the 120,000-year-old hippopotamus at the site indicates that a record dating back to before the last Ice Age is present at the site.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
A $31.4 million bar cart shaped like a hippopotamus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Researchers examined numerous hippopotamus fossils using both genetic and radiocarbon dating methods.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025
While not much is known about hippopotamus intelligence, a 2022 study in the journal Science found that hippos can recognize the voices of their friends and potential enemies.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2024
All six-thousand hippopotamus pounds of Fry dive for my ankles.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Their list mainly included fish, but also mammals like beavers, river dolphins and hippopotami, as well as coldblooded creatures like crocodiles, giant salamanders and alligator snapping turtles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
Sometimes he dances, rather in the manner of the tutu-clad hippopotami in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2016
The plural of hippopotamus is hippopotami, because it's a Latin word ending in -us.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
"But such pedantry is frowned upon in common usage, so we are stuck with the equally accepted hippopotamuses and hippopotami."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
He says moreover, that that sea is sweet to the taste, and that it contains monsters like the crocodiles and the hippopotami in the Nile.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The code specifies hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, moose, giraffes, baboons and reptiles over 8 feet long, among others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
They confront many obstacles and dangers on their trek, including rivers that hide dangerous hippopotamuses and crocodiles, not to mention numerous predators they face on land.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In addition to India and Mexico, facilities in Ecuador, Botswana, and the Philippines have expressed interest in acquiring some Colombian hippopotamuses.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
The fossils date from early in the Eocene epoch, when Earth was home to ancient relatives of many modern mammals, including tapirs, hippopotamuses and humans.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2023
I’m going to be a veterinarian and operate on the biggest animals on the planet—elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, hippopotamuses.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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