The liquid also acts like a natural sunblock, giving the hippo some extra protection. Hippos are big creatures, which means they have big appetites. Hippos can eat more than 40 kilograms of grass in one night. Hippos are most active at night and will keep a lookout for any tasty fallen fruit they can find, too. Being active at night means they can lounge about in the water during the day, another way they keep cool.
Hippos are social animals and you can find anywhere from 10 to 20 hippos in a pod in some cases even more. A pod is made up of adult males, some younger males, adult females and their young. Toggle navigation Menu. Explore Videos Games. A hippo's mouth may be 2 feet wide at its lip. The mouth of an adult hippo is roomy enough for 36 teeth, including tusks that can grow up to 2 feet long. Incisors and bottom incisors thrust vertically to the front of the mouth to stab foes.
Dugongs, which are occasionally seen off our north eastern coast, are distantly related mammals which have much smaller mouths but also graze on aquatic vegetation. All the whales have very large mouths, for varying functions, and there may be some evolutionary association involved. Hippopotamus The Hippopotamus a massive, semi-aquatic mammal with a mass of up to 2, 5 tonnes.
The Hippopotamus is typically a slate brown colour to muddy brown Toggle navigation Enquire current. Contact Us.
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