Although long considered Burroughs ' first-novel, he had in fact several years earlier completed a manuscript called And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks with Kerouac, but this work would remain unpublished in its entirety until 2008.

The Greeks, Hasmoneans, and Romans founded flourishing towns and settlements on the land-locked lake including Gadara, Hippos and Tiberias.

This includes the satirical Picnic of Love album, and also covers of songs completely different from their style including " Can't Touch This ", " Stayin ' Alive ", " Escape ", " The Theme From Three's Company ", " You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side ", " Hungry Hungry Hippos ", and " Just the Two of Us ", as well as their karaoke rendition of the Steve Miller Band song " Abracadabra " ( intended to be a " cover " of " Sabbra Cadabra ").

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 ).

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

* Hippos of Lake Edward a blog about the last significant group of Hippos in Virunga National Park, DRC

* John Bush, This Is a Book about Hippos ( Kestrel ) 1983

A new super special stage was built at Hippos, along with a VIP village for 1, 600 people.

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

Hippos have been clocked at over short distances.

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

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

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

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 still found in the rivers and lakes of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya, north through to Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, west to Gambia, and south to South Africa.

Hippos are also subject to unregulated hunting and poaching.

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 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.

Hippos are born underwater.

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

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

In addition, a miracle of Jesus recounted in Mark 5 and Luke 8 may also be related to Hippos.

Hippos was built on a flat-topped foothill 2 kilometers east of and 350 meters above the Sea of Galilee, 144 meters above sea level, near modern Kibbutz Ein Gev.

Hippos itself fell under attack by rebels at least once.

They unearthed some domestic buildings, the main city gate at the east and a large Byzantine church that had probably been the seat of Hippos ' bishop.

The Hippos super special was dropped in favour of a similar stage at the Killeri harness racing track by the lake Killerjärvi, where the audience had better visibility of the competing cars.

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Hippos at Kazinga Channel

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

The " foot " is often compared to a musical measure and the long and short syllables to half notes ( minims ) and quarter notes ( crotchets ), respectively.

It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire – who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired – into performing a series of song and dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film.

" Post-left anarchist Bob Black in his long critique of Bookchin's philosophy called Anarchy after leftism said about post-left anarchy that " It is, unlike Bookchinism, “ individualistic ” in the sense that if the freedom and happiness of the individual — i. e., each and every really existing person, every Tom, Dick and Murray — is not the measure of the good society, what is?

As long as we can measure the position of each particle with infinite precision ( even when the particles collide ), there would be no ambiguity about which particle is which.

The Komodo dragon has a tail as long as its body, as well as about 60 frequently replaced serrated teeth that can measure up to in length.

They measure up to long, weigh as much as, and have paddle-like flippers.

Like many of the medieval towns of Tuscany, Montalcino experienced long periods of peace and often enjoyed a measure of prosperity.

Assessments may take any form, so long as the assessments actually measure whether the student knows the required information or can perform the required task.

But as this practice only attaches to certain ( major ) sacred days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices ; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar ; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.

Furthermore, Plutarch reports that at the next Olympic Games: " Themistocles entered the stadium, the audience neglected the contestants all day long to gaze on him, and pointed him out with admiring applause to visiting strangers, so that he too was delighted, and confessed to his friends that he was now reaping in full measure the harvest of his toils in behalf of Hellas.

It deploys a long baseline to measure angles much smaller than can be resolved with a conventional telescope.

The body of a viola would need to measure about long to match the acoustics of a violin, making it impractical to play in the same manner as the violin.

The number of points in a segment one ell long is its true measure.

For example, using a long pulse length, it may possible to measure attenuation over a distance of more than 100 km, however in this case an optical event may appear to be over 1 km long.

It is conservative, in that if it were used to measure the individual losses of several long fibers, and the long fibers were concatenated, the total loss obtained ( excluding splice losses ) would be expected to be lower than the sum of the individual fiber losses.

The long history of study of these elements is in part because the proportions of stable isotopes in these light and volatile elements is relatively easy to measure.

* So long as there are non-measurable sets in a measure space, there are non-measurable functions from that space.

Their long tenure meant that their seniority in the Senate gave South Carolina a good measure of clout in national politics, despite its modest population.

They measure 13 – 37 inches ( 35 – 94 cm ) long from their snout to the base of the tail, with the tail adding another 8. 5 – 19 inches ( 21. 6 – 47 cm ).

Individual adult tracks generally measure 1⅞ inches long by 2 inches wide ( 4. 8 × 5. 1 cm ) for the fore prints and 2½ inches long by 2¼ inches wide ( 6. 4 × 5. 7 cm ) for the hind prints.