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Sterilizing a single hippo requires heavy equipment and carries significant risk to personnel, while relocation efforts have stalled as no other country has agreed to accept the animals.—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026 Curtain calls In 1999, a male hippo in rut apparently mistook a passing tractor at a French zoo for a rival and smashed through his enclosure fencing.—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026 And who wouldn’t want to see their baby’s name stitched on a blanket with an adorable giraffe, lion, hippo, or unicorn?—Devonne Goode, Parents, 7 Apr. 2026 Just look at how much the internet embraced Moo Deng the baby pygmy hippo in Thailand, or Punch the monkey in a Japanese zoo.—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hippo