Mary's Monday Metazoan: Poop propellors

By pharyngula on February 23, 2015.

That's all I've got to say. Hippos are really into scat.

Yeah, I'd hide too.

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Enough about dogs...who wouldn't like to own a pygmy hippopotamus? They are pig-like and hippo-like with really cute offspring

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Hippo Thanksgiving.

The younger Free-Ride offspring offers this drawing of a hippo exhorting you to remember Thanksgiving.

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tags: pygmy hippo, hippopotamus, Choero

Here's a pretty weird looking photo; it comes courtesy of Markus BÃ¼hler (of Bestiarium) and was taken at Berlin Zoo. I don't think I'm spoiling the surprise by saying that it shows a Hippopotamus amphibius....

Well and their tails are obviously designed to act like shit-pellers. Why? It's not like they care if there's lumps of turd floating down the greasy Limpopo.

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