hippopotamus
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Aesthetes had been howling about the Freedom 250 set, a soaring, 92-foot tall structure which resembled one of those arcade machine claws in which you try and fail to grab a stuffed hippopotamus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
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
Noah was right; he looks exactly like a hippopotamus.
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
Photograph: John Bracegirdle/Alamy When the foundations of Trafalgar Square were dug in the 1830s, builders exposed river gravels crammed with the bones of hippopotami, straight-tusked elephants, giant deer, giant aurochs and lions.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2013
"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
Bare rocky hills, cut by deep and dangerous ravines, alternated with stretches of long coarse grass and dense thorny scrub, impenetrable save by low tunnels made by roaming hippopotami.
From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang
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
Mexican zoo authorities have agreed to help facilitate the transfer of the hippopotamuses, which have yet to be captured.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
The authors describe parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs inside the cocoons of other parasitoid wasps, for example, and leeches that spend their entire lives inside the anuses of hippopotamuses.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2022
A mural depicts the entry to his infamous rural getaway, Hacienda Napoles, which featured, among other attractions, a zoo from which imported hippopotamuses have since escaped into the nearby countryside, causing environmental havoc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
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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