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This overcrowding disrupts the hierarchical system, resulting in even higher levels of aggression, with the oldest and strongest males asserting dominance.
Old scars and fresh, deep wounds are signs of daily fights. If they encounter each other outside of mating, then they simply ignore each other.
They leave the water pool at night to graze for four to five hours, covering up to eight kilometers five miles of territory. They will eat about 40 kilograms 88 pounds of food during this time. Their modest appetite is due to its sedentary life, which does not require high outputs of energy.
When returning from grazing before dawn, they will enter their water pool at the same spot they exited. Two hippo species are found in Africa. The common hippo also known as the large hippo , found in East Africa, occurs south of the Sahara.
The other much smaller species of hippo is the pygmy hippopotamus. Limited to very restricted ranges in West Africa, it is a shy, solitary forest dweller, and is now endangered. Unleash more canine heroes to save elephants. Donate now. Learn how we're protecting Africa's species each and every day so we never have to live in a world without elephants, rhinos, and other precious wildlife.
Breadcrumb Wildlife Conservation Hippopotamus. What is a hippo? Scientific name. Common Hippo: 1. Life span. Up to 50 years in the wild. Wetlands, rivers, and swamps. Humans, lions, crocodiles, hyenas. The bellowing of a bull hippo measures an ear-splitting decibels and sounds like the roar of a lion.
Although hippos have very sharp teeth and are very large animals, they are in fact herbivores which means they do not eat meat, only plants.
Hippos may stay in the waters all day, however, at night they come out of the lakes, swamps and ponds and head for the grass to graze. They are amazingly agile animals and good climbers for their size.
At night they will climb steep banks to graze on grass. They can get through around pounds of grass in one night. This grazing goes on for most of the night, then, before sunrise, they head back into the waters and swamps to digest their food and for another day of lazing beneath the waters surface. Male hippos are about 7 years old and females about 9 years old when they become ready to mate.
Hippo mating usually happens within the dry seasons when most of the hippos have congregated around water sources. Mating usually takes place under the water. The female hippo will carry her baby for about days. When the time comes to give birth, she will separate from the herd and isolate herself. One single calf is born, usually underwater and mother and calf will stay together away from the herd for between 10 — 44 days.
The mother hippo will nudge her calf to the surface of the water to catch its first breath and then the calf will take a breath, close its nostrils, fold its ears and submerge to nurse on its mother. A female hippo will give birth to a single calf every two years. Calves are usually born in the rainy season and weigh about 93 pounds at birth. Calves will begin to eat grass at about 3 weeks old, however, it will continue to nurse from its mother for about a year.
Serious grazing at night begins at around 5 months old. Calves stay close to their mothers for protection, not only from crocodiles and lions, but from male hippos who oddly enough do not bother with the calves on land but can attack young males in the water. On land, the calves can also be trampled on by the male hippos during chasing, fighting and stampedes.
A hippo, or hippopotamus, is a partially aquatic mammal with a primarily vegetarian diet. The hippopotamus is one of the largest mammals to live on land and can reach a weight between 2, and 3, pounds, depending on its sex. This animal species is often recognized by its barrel-like body shape, short legs, wide snout, and high eyes and ears.
It has a unique skeletal structure that allows it to sink to the bottom of large bodies of water. This action allows hippos to walk across the floor of lakes and rivers, rather than swim. Despite its size and body proportions, the hippopotamus may run at speeds of up to 19 miles per hour.
Additionally, hippos have an average life expectancy of about 50 years. The genus Hippopotamus is divided into two living species: the H. The H.
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