:’D Yeah, because hippos are known to prefer floating in open seas aboard slippery logs. Geez. :’D
The pygmy hippo is a solitary animal that lives among dense vegetation along streams and swamps and in the rainforests of West Africa.
The pygmy hippo was unknown to western scientists until the mid-nineteenth century. The pygmy hippo loses water through its skin so quickly that it must live in a damp,shady habitat.
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Buckland wrote (quote) the presence of tropical animals in northern Europe cannot be solved by supposing them to migrate periodically...for in the case of crocodiles and tortoises extensive emigration is almost impossible, and not less so with an unwieldly animal as the hippopotamus when out of the water...it is equally difficult to imagine that they could have passed their winters in lakes and rivers frozen up with ice.
Referring to Kirkdale Cave in Yorkshire and a site at Brentford near London where the bones of hippopotamus, reindeer, grizzly bear, musk sheep, cave lion and hyena were found together with worked flint...and the remains of reindeer, mammoth and rhinoceros in the cave of Breugue in France...Buckland wrote:
From the limited quantity of postdiluvian stalactite, as well as from the undecayed condition of the bones, one must deduce that the time elapsed since the introduction of the diluvial mud has not been of excessive length. The bones were not yet fossilized.
The pygmy hippo is an herbivore; it feeds only on plant material. It uproots swamp plants and eats them whole. The hippo also crushes hard fruit with its strong teeth and strips leaves from shrubs and young trees. It sometimes reaches higher branches by standing on its hind legs and leaning on the tree trunk with its front legs.
Height: 2 1/3-3ft.
Length: Head and body,5-6ft.tall, 6in.
Weight: 350-600lb.
