Recent Examples on the WebVisitors to the Dallas Zoo can find out how hippos, gorillas, goats, and more react to the eclipse.—Melissa Locker, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024 Mike signals to slowly backtrack along the water's edge, where several hippos, feeling equally territorial, begin snorting and honking.—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Apr. 2024 According to Reuters, the birth marked Attica Zoological Park’s first pygmy hippo in 10 years.—Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024 Meeting Fiona, the world-famous hippo Bibi, mom to seven-year-old Fiona and one-year-old Fritz, came on over.—The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2024 The unclassifiable mash-up of documentary and fiction is narrated by a hippo brought to Columbia by drug king Pablo Escobar in a dreamy contemplation of nature, cultural dislocation and megaherbivore feeding patterns.—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024 Every hippo could theoretically be euthanized in a single year.—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024 But when authorities culled a male hippo in 2009, a fierce reaction from animal rights activists followed.—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024 Hippo Cove holds up to four hippos, so if one of the females gets pregnant and has a baby, then a current habitant will have to go.—The Enquirer, 5 Mar. 2024
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