1. Hippos spend up to 16 hours a day submerged in rivers and lakes to keep their massive bodies cool. 2. A baby hippo is called a calf and weighs nearly 100 pounds at birth. 3. A female hippopotamus ...

The Mara River makes the perfect home for hippos. They graze the surrounding reed beds and grassland and swim in the bends and pools of deep water. The river supports around 2,000 of these semi ...

You may think they lazily spend their days enjoying waterways and munching on grass — and, sure, there’s a reason they’ve been called “hungry, hungry hippos.” But there is so much more to this ...

Hippos, despite the myth, don't produce pink milk. Their white milk can sometimes mix with a reddish secretion, called "blood ...

What are hippos like when they are young? Learn more about baby hippos with these fun facts that will make you love the species even more. Some mammals, like elephants, can have a gestation period of ...

Video credit RZSS Here are some other things to know about this now internet famous group of pachyderms. Pygmy hippos like Haggis and Moo Deng are native to the forests and swamps of West Africa ...

(i.e. names hold meaning, they help us to identify things, that have connotations or underlying nuances, etc) Stop and think: Greece. In Greek, hippopotamus means “river horse”. In Greek ...