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Visitors to the Dallas Zoo can find out how hippos, gorillas, goats, and more react to the eclipse.
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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
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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First Known Use
1850, in the meaning defined above
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“Hippo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hippo. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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