Hippopotamus madagascariensis skeleton with a modern hippopotamus skull.

In the game of chess, the hippopotamus lends its name to the Hippopotamus Defense, an opening system, which is generally considered weak. The River Horse is a popular outdoor sculpture at George Washington University, Washington, D. C.

Additionally the area is a habitat for many species of animals including the hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius ), crocodile ( Crocodylus niloticus ) and many other mammals, amphibians, reptiles and the invertebrate communities.

A sister species of the pygmy hippopotamus may have been the little-studied Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus ( Hexaprotodon madagascariensis or Hippopotamus madagascariensis ), one of three recently extinct species from Madagascar.

These include the Cretan dwarf hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus creutzburgi ), the Sicilian hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus pentlandi ), the Maltese hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus melitensis ) and the Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus minor ).

For the Christmas season in 2005, an ad campaign was launched involving a hippopotamus named Hazina from the Greater Vancouver Zoo, accompanied by the song " I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas ".

***** The semiaquatic hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius ) is the heaviest living even-toed ungulate ; it and the critically endangered pygmy hippo ( Choeropsis liberiensis ) are believed to be the closest extant relatives of cetaceans.

In particular, it is possible that he copied descriptions of the crocodile, hippopotamus and phoenix from Hecataeus's ' Circumnavigation of the Known World ' ( Periegesis / Periodos ges ), even mis-representing the source as ' Heliopolitans ' ( Histories 2. 73 ).

In May 2006 the hippopotamus was identified as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List drawn up by the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ), with an estimated population of between 125, 000 and 150, 000 hippos, a decline of between 7 % and 20 % since the IUCN's 1996 study.

It is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including hippopotamus, crocodile ( both in decline ), and large communities of migrating birds including wintering ducks, ruff ( Philomachus pugnax ) and other waterfowl and shore birds.

He produced an even larger body of work on fossils, dealing with the extinct mammals of the Eocene beds of Montmartre, the fossil species of hippopotamus, a marsupial ( which he called Didelphys gypsorum ), the Megalonyx, the Megatherium, the cave-hyena, the pterodactyl, the extinct species of rhinoceros, the cave bear, the mastodon, the extinct species of elephant, fossil species of manatee and seals, fossil forms of crocodilians, chelonians, fish, birds, etc.

Other minor potential reservoirs have been indicated in various fly biting habit studies: hippopotamus, wild ruminants ( e. g., buffalo ), rodents, and lizards.

The instrument is also known as imvubu ( hippopotamus in Zulu ), kiboko ( hippopotamus in Swahili ) and as mnigolo ( hippopotamus in Malinké ).

These very large and very heavy firearms were the first to be known as the elephant guns of the black powder era ( 1850 – 1890 ), though their use also included all thick-skinned dangerous game such as rhinoceros, hippopotamus and cape buffalo.

* Gloria ( Madagascar ), a hippopotamus from the film Madagascar

For example, they find a " hippopautomobile " ( a hippopotamus with a steering wheel and seating in its back as in an automobile ), a " pelicanoe " ( a pelican in which a rider could sit and paddle like a canoe ), and a " samovarmint " ( a samovar for serving tea with the head and claws of a wild animal ).

There were also several species of pygmy hippo on the island of Madagascar ( see Malagasy hippopotamus ).

The pygmy hippo, however, is only half as tall as the hippopotamus and weighs less than 1 / 4 as much as its larger cousin.

The skull of a pygmy hippo has less pronounced Orbit ( anatomy ) | orbits and nostril s than a common hippopotamus.

Like the common hippopotamus, the pygmy hippo emerges from the water at dusk to feed.

Soon afterward the Hutto School adopted the hippopotamus as its mascot and as early as 1923 the hippo appeared on official Hutto High School graduation announcements.

A hippo or hippopotamus is either of two species of large African mammal which live mainly in and near water:

Elephant ivory has been the most important source, but ivory from many species including the hippopotamus, walrus, pig, mammoth, sperm whale, and narwhal has been used.

This gave rise to " Waterloo Teeth ", which were real human teeth set into hand-carved chunks of ivory from hippopotamus or walrus jaws.

The word " hippopotamus " is derived from the ancient Greek, hippopotamos, from, hippos, " horse ", and, potamos, " river ", meaning " horse of the river ".

They are likely descended from a full-sized species of European hippopotamus, and reached their small size through the evolutionary process of insular dwarfism which is common on islands ; the ancestors of pygmy hippopotami were also small and thus there was never a dwarfing process.

( video ) A pygmy hippopotamus rests in some water to help prevent its skin from cracking at Ueno Zoo in Japan.

Hapi often was pictured carrying offerings of food or pouring water from an amphora, but also, very rarely, was depicted as a hippopotamus.

Local farmers and merchants watched the commotion in amusement and with interest as unsuccessful efforts were made to extricate the hippopotamus from the muddy waters of Cottonwood Creek.

Hachaliah's nephew George F. Bailey managed several shows, too, designing a tank in which a hippopotamus could be moved from place to place.

Telus pledged $ 10, 000 towards the building of a new habitat for Hazina and announced a plan to make available for ' adoption ' plush hippopotamus toys through Telus dealers, with all proceeds from BC going towards Hazina and all proceeds from Alberta going towards the hippopotamus at the Calgary Zoo.

The discovery of a complete skeleton from Sakhalin Island in 1941, however, showed that they possessed four legs, with bones as stout as a hippopotamus ', and justified the creation of a new order for the desmostylians, described by Roy H. Reinhart in 1953.

It is traditionally made from an adult hippopotamus ( or rhinoceros ) hide, but is also commonly made out of plastic.

Victoria Cave contained remains of mammoth, bear, reindeer and hippopotamus and flint, a harpoon head carved from antler, and other implements and ornaments.

However, the Shila people used to hunt hippopotamus using nothing more than harpoons thrown from canoes.

Carved from hippopotamus incisors from the Nile, they show Egyptian stylistic influence.

The hippopotamus-headed Tawaret was a goddess of protection in pregnancy and childbirth, because ancient Egyptians recognized the protective nature of a female hippopotamus toward her young.

Ammit (; " devourer " or " soul-eater "; also spelled Ammut or Ahemait ) was a female demon in ancient Egyptian religion with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile — the three largest " man-eating " animals known to ancient Egyptians.

The Greek historian Herodotus described the hippopotamus in The Histories ( written circa 440 BC ) and the Roman Historian Pliny the Elder wrote about the hippopotamus in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia ( written circa 77 AD ).

However Ibn Battuta also mentioned an ingenious trick used by locals that allowed them to hunt hippopotamus for both their meat and hides.

He claimed to have found some footprints but when the footprints were sent to scientists for analysis, they turned out to be hippopotamus footprints.

" Sea cow " ( seekoei ) is also the name for a hippopotamus in Afrikaans.

After becoming pregnant, a female hippopotamus will typically not begin ovulation again for 17 months.

The existence of the subspecies, makes Choeropsis liberiensis liberiensis ( or Hexaprotodon liberiensis liberiensis under the old classification ) the full trinomial nomenclature for the Liberian pygmy hippopotamus.

Sexual maturity for the pygmy hippopotamus occurs between three and five years of age.

The park is home to Lu, a famous hippopotamus known for his performances in many movies for the past 40 years.

The campaign raised an additional $ 20, 000 for the Vancouver Zoo's hippopotamus enclosure.

According to Manetho, Menes reigned for 62 years and was mauled to death by a hippopotamus.

Dugouts are paddled across deep lakes and rivers or punted through channels in swamps ( see makoro ) or in shallow areas, and are used for transport, fishing and hunting, including, in the past, the very dangerous hunting of hippopotamus.

Crocodile and hippopotamus are common and a hazard for fishermen and travellers.

Ungulates whose habitat does not require fast running on hard terrain, for example the hippopotamus, have maintained four digits.

The. 338 Lapua Magnum is capable of taking down any game animal, though its suitability for some dangerous game ( Cape buffalo, hippopotamus, white rhinoceros and elephant ) is arguable, unless accompanied by a larger " backup " caliber: " There is a huge difference between calibers that will kill an elephant and those that can be relied upon to stop one.

He does not cease to marvel at the extraordinary wildlife which is far more plentiful around the Gambia, notably the hippopotamus ( which he calls the " horse fish ") and the largely unfamiliar African elephant ( whose meat he was tempted to taste-a piece of which he salted and brought back to Portugal for Prince Henry himself ; a preserved elephant's foot would be forwarded to Henry's sister, Isabella, Duchess of Burgundy.