hippopotamus
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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
An "incredibly rare" female baby hippopotamus has been born at Edinburgh Zoo.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024
Water Lily, a 45-year-old female hippopotamus who has lived at the Woodland Park Zoo since 1979, will be euthanized next week.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2024
An hour after the death certificate is signed, Lucinda is laid out in the water well of the hippopotamus car and hitched to a team of twenty-four black Percherons with feathers on their headbands.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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