A range of generic animals has been produced, including a turtle, pig, puppy, kitten, frog, and hippopotamus, but cartoon characters including: Garfield, Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, Shrek, The Simpsons, and SpongeBob have also been licensed.

Originally Starkings had intended that the advertisements for these fonts would feature Marvel and DC Comics ' characters, however when he failed to receive the authorisation to do that, Starkings created his own character to illustrate the ads-Hip Flask an anthropomorphic hippopotamus " Information Agent ".

He can use a Shinto stick to change into characters / animals like a hippopotamus, a monkey or a tiger, each of which has its own special ability.

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

Dwarf elephants, dwarf hippopotamus, and dwarf deer were native to Pleistocene Crete.

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

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

Both species were larger than the modern hippopotamus, averaging about 1 meter ( 3. 3 feet ) longer.

Zulu warriors preferred to be as brave as a hippopotamus, since even lions were not considered as brave.

Some animals ( such as the rhinoceros and the hippopotamus ) were unknown in western Europe during the Middle Ages so gargoyles of these species ( such as the ones at Laon Cathedral ) are modern gargoyles and therefore did not have symbolic meaning in Medieval times.

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.

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

They were executed by a hunting people in the Capsian period of the Neolithic age who lived in a savanna region teeming with giant buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, animals that no longer exist in the now-desert area.

He also described in detail the " drift deposits in the counties of Worcester and Warwick, drawing particular attention to the fluviatile deposits of Cropthorne in which remains of hippopotamus, & c., were found ".

Nile crocodiles and hippopotamus, two animals which were widespread in the delta during antiquity, are no longer found there.

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.

They were executed by a hunting people in the Capsian period of the Neolithic age ( 3000-1900 BC ) who lived in a savanna region teeming with giant buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, animals that no longer exist in the now-desert area.

During this occasion the hippopotamus and the rhinoceros were shown in Rome for the first time ever.

Early depictions of Quasimoto were taken from the movie Fantastic Planet, specifically the leashed Oms who wore red masks with protruding snouts resembling skinny hippopotamus during the first " de-om ".

Armed with modern weapons and the chicotte — a bull whip made of hippopotamus hide — soldiers of the FP often took and mistreated hostages ( sometimes women, who were held captive in order to force their husbands to meet rubber quotas ).

* " Though the hippopotamus has no sting, the wise man would prefer to be sat upon by the bee.

There Ibn Battuta was acquainted by a local Malian merchant named Abu Bakr Ibn Yaqub, together they ventured around Timbuktu and sailed to Gao, it was during their travels that Ibn Battuta first encountered a hippopotamus, which was feared among the local boatmen because it drowned or killed local inhabitants.

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

( The hippopotamus is still the leading cause of human deaths by animal encounter in Africa today.

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.

Mayer mistakenly used the term hippopotamus in 1779, and was followed by some other authors until Karl Friedrich Burdach resolved this error in 1829.

The Nigerian pygmy hippopotamus ranged in the Niger River Delta, especially near Port Harcourt, but no reliable reports exist after the collection of the museum specimens secured by I. R. P. Heslop, a British colonial officer, in the early 1940s.

The pygmy hippopotamus is capable of being killed by leopards, pythons and crocodiles.

If not, he is eaten by the waiting chimeric devouring creature Ammit composed of the deadly crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus.

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 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.

A friendly hippopotamus is shot down by heavy artillery, which Bosko destroys with a pair of longjohns-turned-catapult.

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

* Hoppopotamus ( voiced by Jo Anne Worley ): Half rabbit, half hippopotamus.

Other renditions have included the Babylon 5 episodes " Atonement ", sung by Marcus Cole to irritate fellow passenger Dr. Franklin ; The Wind In The Willows episode " A Producer's Lot " ( Series 3, Episode 11 ) sung by Mole ( Richard Pearson ); the Married With Children episode " Peggy and the Pirates " ( Season 7, Episode 18 ); the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Disaster "; the episode of Frasier titled " Fathers and Sons " ( Martin interrupts the song trying to join in, singing, " With many awful facts about the scary hippopotamus!

The Wolstonian Stage was followed by the Ipswichian Stage, during which hippopotamus are known to have lived as far north as Leeds.

For the first ruler of the first Dynasty, Menes, we learn that " he was snatched and killed by a hippopotamus ".

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.

Perplexed, the group heads deeper into the jungle by boat, surviving a hippopotamus attack at night.

They are believed to have wallowed in swamps and rivers, filling the ecological niche now filled by the hippopotamus.

The Weyto language is believed to be an extinct language formerly spoken in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia by the Weyto, a small group of hippopotamus hunters who now speak Amharic.

This report was confirmed by Marcel Griaule when he passed through in 1928, although he added that at one point a Weyto sang an unrecorded song " in the dead language of the Wohitos " whose meaning the singer himself did not understand, except for a handful of words for hippopotamus body parts which, he says, had remained in use.