Hippos don’t fly – but the massive animals can get airborne: Unlike the birds that often share their space, hippos can't fly. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket In 1872 Leland Stanford, the founder of California’s Stanford University, hired an eccentric inventor named Eadweard Muybridge to help resolve a supposed (but undocumented) bet: did a trotting horse’s feet leave …
Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ are a problem — but a lot of thought is going into preventing their spread: Last week, Colombia recorded its first road traffic incident involving a hippopotamus. A car collided with the animal at speed leaving it dead on the road. The hippo was a descendent of the four animals that …
We used 60-year-old notebooks to find out why male hippos have bigger tusks than females: Courtship behaviour of a male and female hippopotamus in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, showing the larger head and tusk sizes of the adult male on left. Graeme Shannon, Author provided Male hippopotamuses are an unusual size. Among mammals, males are …
Crocodile instantly regrets attacking wildebeest when two hippos show up: But it refuses to give up and tussles with the predator for over eight minutes as it tries to escape. Mervyn Van Wyk filmed the moment and said: “The hippos approached the scene cautiously and then suddenly sprang onto the croc forcing him to release …