Hippos are hard to study and dangerous to encounter.
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Moo Deng is a celebrity now. But 80% of her native forest has been lost.
Deforestation has cast Moo Deng’s wild relatives into a hostile landscape of cocoa farms and mines.
This shows that hippos are one of the largest animals that still can get airborne at fast speeds and yet they are also adapted for an aquatic lifestyle.
Any law that protects threatened wildlife should be welcomed – but a ban alone will not prevent illegal activity.
Pablo Escobar’s hippos escaped in the 1990s – since then, they have become a problem.
The findings suggest we weren’t the first advanced carnivore among the hominins, as has been previously assumed.
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Hippos are very vocal creatures. They display certain aggressive behaviour when strangers are in their territory.
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