Pygmy Hippo
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Pygmy Hippopotamus - Wikipedia on Ask.com
Brought to you by the National Zoo| FONZ. ... In 1927 Harvey Firestone (who owned a large rubber plantation in Liberia) gave President Calvin Coolidge a male pygmy hippo named Billy as a gift. Billy is the ancestor to almost all pygmy hippos living in American zoos.
Billy (pygmy hippo) - Wikipedia on Ask.com
General information on hippopotamuses, including its life style, habitat, and life cycle. ... More pig-like than its larger relative, the pygmy hippo's scientific status has been quite varied - when it was first described, many dismissed it as a stunted freak, a dwarf subspecies or a juvenile specimen of the common hippopotamus.
Pygmy Hippo Fact Sheet - National Zoo| FONZ
How about this for a cute animal? A pygmy hippo was born in Rotterdam on Wednesday, inspiring HuffPost Green to assemble this collection of pygmy hippo photos. ... Read More: Adorable, Animals, Baby Animals, Baby-Pygmy-Hippo, Cute Animals, Hippopotamus, Hippos, Pygmy Hippo, Pygmy-Hippo-Video, Slidepoll, Zoo, Green News...
Pygmy hippopotamus
The newborn from Rotterdam's Blijdorp Zoo is dwarfed by veg as he has a nibble with his mum. ... The aptly named pygmy grows to just over 3ft tall - just one fifth of the size of the common hippopotamus - and is the only other species of hippo in the world.
PHOTOS: Adorable Newborn Pygmy Hippos
Australia's Taronga Zoo in Sydney recently showed off its latest addition, a baby pygmy hippo. Monifa, who is only three weeks old, is currently the size of... ... Pygmy Hippo Hand-Reared At Sydney's Taronga Zoo...
Pictured: The baby pygmy hippo who's barely bigger than a lettuce
There are two species of hippopotamus: the river, or common, hippo Hippopotamus amphibius (featured on this fact sheet) and the much smaller pygmy hippo Hexaprotodon liberiensis. The hippo is heaviest land mammal (after the elephant)
YouTube - Raw Video: Zoo Shows Off Pygmy Hippo
Pygmy Hippopotamus - Hexaprotodon liberensis ... Description: Much smaller than the common hippopotamus, with proportionally longer legs, a smaller head, less prominent eyes and ears more towards the side of the head. The pygmy hippo's nose and ears can be closed underwater, an adaptation to aquatic life.
San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Hippopotamus
Although a large animal, weighing in at approximately 500 pounds, the pygmy hippo derives its diminutive name from the fact that it is one-tenth the size of its closest relative, the common or river hippopotamus.