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Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus amphibius
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Field Notes
Description:
The Hippo is a huge animal that spends most of the daylight hours in water to help protect is very sensitive skin from sunburn. It forages at night on grasses and will somtimes travel miles to get to good grazing lands. Unfortunately this is the reason for many human fatalities, as people often find themselves in the path of a hippo returning to water in the early morning or headed to graze late at night.
Habitat:
Water deep enough to fully submerge that is within commuting distance to grassland.
Notes:
This was the head of a small pod of Hippo at the private reserve we stayed at during our first trip to Africa
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