All carnivores would be in one zone, and a miniature savannah with deer, rhino, elephant, giraffe and hippo forming another. |
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For example, most grazing and mixed feeding ungulates have hypsodont teeth, but the hippo and the rock hyrax have brachyodont teeth. |
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This park contains one of the largest hippo populations in the world and high concentrations of Nile crocodile. |
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There the hippo immediately ran to Mzee, a 130-year-old Aldabran tortoise who resides at the Haller Park sanctuary. |
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Last month Kenyan game wardens rescued the hippo after he had been separated from his herd. |
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The pygmy hippo, which is the smallest species, occurs in West Africa, especially in or near rivers, lakes, and swamps. |
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Ever since the baby was born, visitors to the zoo are making a beeline for the hippo enclosure to see the new arrival. |
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Tawaret has the head of a hippo, Thoth the head of an ibis, and the great sun god Ra is rowed across the heavens in a boat. |
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Although currently regulated, trade in hippo ivory is not banned, and enforcing trade quotas remains a prickly problem. |
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The rebels are believed to be eating and selling hippo meat and taking the animals' teeth for ivory. |
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I'd like a pygmy hippo for overland journeys, and a manatee for underwater travel. |
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Low instruments such as tuba and baritone horn make a sonic imagining of the hippo. |
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The clownfish and hippo tang, for example, look almost identical to their real-life counterparts. |
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His wife kept him supplied with beers and food, and there he sat, happy as a hippo in a waterhole. |
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A wandering hippo is causing a stir among residents and holidaymakers at a popular Eastern Cape coastal resort. |
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The wildlife to see here includes buffalo, hippo, black rhino, lion and wild dog. |
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Coupled with environmental education, the goal is to reduce land expansion into hippo habitat by enriching crop yields on existing lands. |
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With none of the versatile plastics to work with in those days, he collected materials as diverse as elephant skin, whale baleen and hippo tooth. |
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The functioning of the treatment plant is necessary, as the water from the hippo enclosure has to be cleaned at least once in five days, as the animal defecates in water. |
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Oops, the yellow giraffe is missing a triangle in her belly! And the green crocodile is missing a rectangle, and the blue hippo a circle! |
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Guests can relax and enjoy a sundowner and views of hippo and other game from the comfort of their river-side accommodation. |
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Should a hippo be allowed to wallow, as she would do natively, or must she partake of the strange customs of her new environment? |
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We saw hippo and elephant but for me highlights were a rare slaty egret, an in-your-face look at a marabou stork standing over a single egg on its head-high nest. |
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As well as the 'Big Five' you will find the nocturnal brown hyena, cheetah, hippo, crocodile and sable. |
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If the three cubes are correctly stacked you can see how BIIIIG the lion, giraffe, hippo and flamingo are. |
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The baby hippo was loaded onto a flatbed and transported to the nature reserve. |
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Last year, game wardens shot dead a hippo after it killed a teenager in Niamey. |
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We have no baseline data on how much ivory is in the market, how much is on sale, what proportion is mammoth, whale, hippo and bone. |
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The hippo enclosure will be unique as the hippos will be in an underwater realm. |
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The hippo was humanely euthanized due to her failing health. |
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In December 2004, fishermen rescued an orphaned baby hippo washed up on the shores of the Kenya coast in the aftermath of the tsunami. |
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Imagine a landscape inhabited by several kinds of elephantoids, deinotheres, three species of rhino, two species of hippo, and two species of giraffe. |
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Dog managed to get himself muddier than a hippo in its favourite wallow. |
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Fat of lion, fat of hippo, fat of cat, fat of crocodile, fat of ibex, fat of serpent, are mixed together and the head of the bald person is anointed with them. |
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I'd never heard of a hippo attacking repeatedly like this, but he clearly wanted me dead. |
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I swam towards Evans, but the hippo struck again, dragging me back under the surface. |
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A hippo, you know, tongues you to death, you know what I mean? |
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Moss recently had to catch and tranquilize a female hippo who had unwittingly escaped from her steely enclosure late one night and had the run of the zoo. |
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From the largest elephant or hippo to the tiniest shrew, all specimens enter this small room, kept at a carefully controlled temperature of 26C and a humidity of 40 per cent. |
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Strictly speaking, the term should be applied only to the tusks of elephants, although a wider definition includes the teeth of the hippo, narwhal whale and the walrus. |
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Home to numerous crocodiles and hippo, the Great Ruaha draws many thirsty waterbuck, leopard, buffalo, reedbuck, wild dogs, lion and hyena to its banks. |
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Still to be introduced are the hippo, cheetah, lion and brown hyena. |
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He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole. |
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These cameras have snapped the pigmy hippo, leopard, bongo, antelopes and the white-breasted guineafowl to name a few. |
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Friendship can bridge any age gap, as oneyear-old hippo Owen and 100-year-old tortoise Mzee prove. |
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The shape of the premolars is also more similar to that of hippo relatives that roamed Uganda about 21 million years ago. |
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The hippo heard us, and, like a baseball player caught off base, tried to get back to the river. |
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The current is not strong, but the rocks are slimy with hippo leavings. |
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In tonight's final episode, Paulmeets Douglas, a hippo calf who was found at five months old wandering near the Zambezi. |
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The fossil record, however, does not support this relationship, because the hippo lineage dates back only about 15 million years. |
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Visitors to the indoor hippo enclosure will have a unique opportunity to see river hippos in their underwater realm, something that no other zoo in North America currently offers. |
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I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo. |
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Should the hippo die out, so too will these groups of birds, leading to further destruction as other species dependent on the birds are affected. |
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They include a giraffe, two lions, four zebras, a rhino and a pygmy hippo. |
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An escaped hippo was cornered in one of Tbilisi's main squares and subdued by a tranquilliser gun. |
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Large herbivorous animals such as the hippopotamus have populations of insectivorous birds that feed off the many parasitic insects that grow on the hippo. |
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Stunning page portraits of mammals include the American bison, red deer, the warthog, a hippo, a wolf, a sloth, a whale, kangaroos, a polar bear, and more. |
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Getting it in his landing net was like 'trying to land a small hippo with a tennis racket,' but after succeeding he towed it to the shore to weigh it. |
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Dr Miller's team said in a study the 19 million-year-old creature's jaw bones suggest it was the size of a small deer and looked like a slim hippo. |
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An African Jacana bird hunts for flies on a partly submerged hippo. |
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