Hippos are recognizable by their barrel-shaped torso, enormous mouth and teeth, nearly hairless body, stubby legs and tremendous size.

Hippos are considered megafauna, but unlike all other African megafauna, hippos have adapted for a semi-aquatic life in freshwater lakes and rivers.

Hippos are also subject to unregulated hunting and poaching.

Hippos are born underwater.

Hippos are very aggressive towards humans, whom they commonly attack whether in boats or on land with no apparent provocation.

The Hippos ' orange and white uniforms and fight song are adapted from the nearby University of Texas Longhorns.

Hippos are among the megafaunal species most dangerous to humans.

Image: Nijlpaard. jpg | Hippos, the heaviest and most aquatic even-toed ungulates, are whales ' closest living relatives.

The Forest of Gugu contained an assortment of animals ranging from animals that are found in Africa ( consisting of Elephants, Hippos, Leopards, Monkeys, Rhinos, and Zebras ) to animals that are found everywhere else ( consisting of Bears, Bison, Donkeys, Foxes, Green Serpents, Kangaroos, Unicorns, and Wolves ).

Currently, four Hippos are in British service, one each on HMS Albion and Bulwark, with two used by 11 ( Amphibious Trials and Training ) Squadron of the Royal Marines.

The spinning is so violent that the Hippos and Alligators are thrown in all directions, causing an Alligator to spill bells across the ice and one stray Hippo to create a large lift in the ice.

Coins found in Mieron are mostly from Tyre, though a large number are also from Hippos, which lay on the other side of Lake Tiberias.

The Hybrids are composed of numerous African animal species including Warthogs, Elephants, Camels, Zebras, Rhinos, Hippos, Giraffes, Hyenas and Crocodiles.

Ancestors of European Hippos found their way to many islands of the Mediterranean during the Pleistocene.

Early Christian monks venerated a village called Kursi, a few kilometers north of Hippos on the lakeshore, as the location of the miracle.

The Malagasy Hippos were smaller than the modern hippopotamus, likely through the process of insular dwarfism.

Hippos have the unique ability to hold their head partially above the water and send out a cry that travels through both water and air ; hippos above and under water will respond.

The Hippos and Alligators proceed to form a " tent " while Minnie and Daisy skate through with blue and pink streamers, respectively.

* As Bart goes through his childhood toys, he mentions several popular toys / games, with parodied names: " Spirogram " ( Spirograph ), " Sketch-N-Etch " ( Etch A Sketch ), " Ravenous Ravenous Rhinos " ( Hungry Hungry Hippos ), " Duopoly " ( Monopoly ), " Parchoosey " ( Parcheesi ), " Humor Putty " ( Silly Putty ), and " Sock ' Em Knock ' Em Cyborgs " ( Rock ' Em Sock ' Em Robots ).

The Blyde River canyon supports large diversity of life, including numerous fish and antelope species as well as Hippos and Crocodiles, and every primate species that may be seen in South Africa ( including both Greater and Lesser Bush Babies, Vervet Monkeys and Samango Monkeys ).

Hippos have been clocked at over short distances.

There is fossil evidence that many Malagasy Hippos were hunted by humans, a likely factor in their eventual extinction.

Hippos measure long, including a tail of about in length and average about 1. 5 meters ( 5 ft ) tall at the shoulder.

Hippos spend most of their days wallowing in the water or the mud, with the other members of their pod.

Hippos leave the water at dusk and travel inland, sometimes up to 8 kilometers ( 5 mi ), to graze on short grass, their main source of food.

Hippos have ( rarely ) been filmed eating carrion, usually close to the water.

Hippos rarely kill each other, even in territorial challenges.

Hippos have remained popular zoo animals since Obaysch, and generally breed well in captivity.

Hippos have been the subjects of various African folktales.

Hippos were mentioned in the novelty Christmas song " I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas " that became a hit for child star Gayla Peevey in 1953.

They even inspired a popular board game, Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Hippos have also been popular cartoon characters, where their rotund frame is used for humorous effect.

The hippopotamus characters " Happy Hippos " were created in 1988 by the French designer Andre Roche based in Munich, to be hidden in the " Kinder Surprise egg " of the Italian chocolate company Ferrero SpA.

Hippos and whales shared a common semi-aquatic ancestor that branched off from other artiodactyls around.

* Videos of Pygmy Hippos at Arkive. org

An earlier but still influential school of painting, surrealism, had suggested the way of dealing with the dream experience, that event in which seemingly incongruous objects are linked together through the curious associations of the subconscious.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

These my grandmother left in their places ( they are still there, more persistent and longer-lived than the generations of man ) and planted others like them, that flourished without careful tending.

`` I care not how soon we reach Calcutta, and are placed in a still room, with a bowl of milk and a loaf of Indian bread.

You are still in France ''.

The curving benches are broken, chipped, tumbled, but still in place, as are the marble chairs, the seats of honor for the legislators.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

And although they were, as I have indicated, under increasing strain at the time of Racine, they are still alive in his theatre.

But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

But while war still serves as a catalyst for the values that Malraux wishes to express, these values are no longer linked with the triumph or defeat of any cause -- whether that of an individual assertion of the will-to-power, or a collective attempt to escape from the humiliation of oppression -- as their necessary condition.

But in so many other areas we still are dragging.

( Significantly, bitter echoes of the 1960 power struggle that saw Mosk moving into the national committee post over Ziffren are still audible in party circles.

However, there are still several types of calls that necessitate the use of telephone operators.

How can we old-fashioned parents, who still feel that adults are due some respect from children, battle the new type of advertising that appears on TV without denying the children the use of television entirely??

structurally, the U.N. is still fluid, vulnerable to the pressures that its new and enlarged membership are bringing to bear upon it.

As Critic Walter Kerr points out: `` Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative ''.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.