61. Wild Vacations In California into the depths of Ituri Forest, a central African jungle habitat teeming with okapis,hippos, forest buffalos Nearby Things To Do San Diego wild Animal Park. http://www.wildvacationsca.com/2002/site/all_attractions_result.cfm?attraction_i

62. Care For The Wild - Elephants, Tigers, Monkeys, Endangered Species, Wild Animals Into the Blue', an innovative project to return three captive dolphins, back tothe wild. hippos in Zimbabwe In 1992, we were able to save a large family of http://www.careforthewild.org/pastintprojects.asp

Home About Us Appeals News ... Link to Us PAST INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS Seals in Canada CFTWI has been involved with seal protection for more than ten years. Our Chairman investigated the killing of Harp Seal Pups in Canada in 1978 and his report on the suffering caused was debated in the European Parliament, which eventually banned the importation of harp seal pups skins into Europe. Elephant re-location, Zimbabwe In 1993, Care for the Wild International launched and funded the largest elephant relocation project the world has ever seen by transporting over 500 elephants in whole family groups from Gonarezhou National Park to the Save Valley Conservancy some 250km away. This project was carried out by Clem Coetsee, a wildlife management expert in Zimbabwe. Today this project still stands as the largest elephant relocation in Africa. Operation Fix-it in Zambia in 1996 CFTWI launched Operation Fix-it to assist the the Zambian National Parks. We were initially asked to purchase vehicles for parks but decided it would be far better to fix all the vehicles that had broken down. Once we had raised the money we sent all the spare parts, together with two mechanics, to Zambia. Our mechanics assisted the local mechanics and ran a night school for them in the evenings. Akim Mwenya, the director of Zambian National Parks said of the project:

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64. Greek Mythology HIPPOI Or ONOI MONOKERATA The Unicorns ( Aka HippoV OnoV MonokerwV 'Ippoi Onoi Monokerata, Transliteration hippos (or Onos Ihave learned that in India are born wild Asses (Onoi) as big as horses. http://www.theoi.com/Tartaros/Monokerata.html

65. San Francisco Zoo | Animals | Nile Hippopotamus Status In The wild hippos are hunted extensively for their highly prized flesh, theirabundance of fat, the superior quality of their tusk ivory, and for their http://www.sfzoo.org/cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=64

66. San Francisco Zoo | Animals | Pygmy Hippopotamus Nigeria. Pygmy hippos are herbivores. In the wild they eat a dietof tender shoots, leaves, fallen fruit, grasses and vegetation. http://www.sfzoo.org/cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=53

67. Podstrona Hippo Page Young hippos are susceptible to predation by lions, leopards, hyenas,and wild dogs. Adults are comparatively safe from predators. http://www.republika.pl/hippopage/einfo.html

HIPPO INFORMATIONS Hippos have the second largest mouth of any animal, after the whale. A hippo can remain under water 2 - 6 minutes before surfacing to breathe. CLASS MAMMAL ORDER ARTIODACTYLA FAMILY HIPPOPOTAMIDAE Hippopotamus amphibius CLASSIFICATION Family consists of 2 genera with one species in each. The other genus, Choeropsis liberiensis , is the pygmy hippo. RANGE Historical Widely distributed over large parts of Africa and Palestine. Current National parks of western Uganda and the eastern Congo. Around rivers and lakes, preferably near grasses. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Length 10.8 to 11.3 ft. Height 4.6 ft. Weight Male - 3,500 to over 7,000 lbs.; Female - over 3,000 lbs. Coloration Upper part of body is gray-brown to blue-black; lower part is pinkish; albinos are bright pink. DIET Zoo Cubed hay, horse pellets, steer food supplement Wild Mainly grasses and reeds; also eat aquatic plants and other vegetation; nocturnal feeders. BEHAVIOR Hippos are gregarious and gather in herds with an average group size of 10-15 animals. Some males are solitary and territorial. Excrement is used for territorial marking, and flung with the tail. Other males maintain territories containing nursery groups of females and young. At mating time, bulls engage in fights which can be fatal. The primary weapons are the huge lower canine teeth. They can be found asleep in the sun or resting in water during daytime, and usually go ashore at night to feed. Hippos are sedentary, and do not migrate.

68. Hippos | Metafilter is definitely true with canids most wild dogs hunt big animals (african wild dogshunt d had a bad experience with a hippo might be wary of hippos in future http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/23203

Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:47 AM PST Home Archives MetaTalk Login ... Donate January 30, 2003 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Hippos Roam Colombian Drug Lord's Abandoned Ranch. posted by at 3:24 PM PST [ trackback ] (23 comments total) Hippopotamuses kill more people in Africa than any other animal. posted by thomcatspike at 3:30 PM PST on January 30 If you want to win the game you've got to think of the name and catch the most marbles with your hippo... posted by at 3:38 PM PST on January 30 thomcatspike: that is exactly what I thought... I hope someone tells the squatters. Aside from that, it's pretty cool! Wonder if they'll settle into a vacancy in the ecosystem, or wreak havoc (read kudzu in Georgia, or mice in Australia). posted by at 3:40 PM PST on January 30 "Hippos Roam Colombian Drug Lord's Abandoned Ranch. " I swear to God I thought that said "Hippies", and my first reaction was "Well, duh !" posted by at 3:44 PM PST on January 30 I read this story about a week ago, but it is none the less facinating. The one aspect not brought up is the *real* reason Escobar had these animals on his ranch: essentially, since smaller animals (i.e., drug-sniffing dogs) are naturally wary of larger animals (i.e., hippos, elephants, lions, etc), they would pack some of these beasts' dung in with the the cocaine shipments. If/when drug-sniffing dogs got near, they would shy away and not alert their handlers to the presence of cocaine. Also, for a interesting read on Pablo Escobar, I'd highly recommend checking out

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70. The Eurasian Wild Pig (Sus Scrofa). In Pigs, Peccaries And Hippos Oliver, WLR, IL Brisbin Jr., and S. Takahashi. 1993. The Eurasian wild pig (Susscrofa). In Pigs, Peccaries and hippos, edited by WLR Oliver. p. 112121. http://www.uga.edu/srel/Reprint/1783.htm

SREL Reprint #1783 SREL Reprint #1783 Oliver, W.L.R., I.L. Brisbin Jr., and S. Takahashi. 1993. The Eurasian wild pig (Sus scrofa). In Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos, edited by W.L.R. Oliver. p. 112-121. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan of the IUCN World Conservation Union. Gland, Switzerland. To request reprint. document.write('<');document.write('! ');

71. The African Hippopotamus Like their cousins the wild Boar, Hippo have unpredictable moods that swing frompassive to hippos can swim and even walk on the river bed, their webbed toes http://www.davidireland.com/library/african_animals/hippo/

African Animal Movies and Stills African Animals : Hippopotamus : Scientific name :Hippopotamus amphibius African Animals buffalo cheetah eland elephant ... zebra All About : Hippo's - Hippopotamuses (Hippopotamus amphibius) belong to the family Hippopotamidae and the order Artiodactyla. The name hippopotamus (meaning "river horse") is fitting as these animals are chiefly aquatic herbivores. The hippopotamus, is the third-largest living land mammal, after elephants and white rhinos. The hippo is an amphibious animal with a bulky body supported by strong short legs. Each foot has four webbed toes that can support the huge creatures on land and in water. The thick skin is grey to brown in colour and is almost completely hairless. Hippos have glands that produce a viscous red fluid that is produced when the animal is excited, the reason the fluid is produced is not fully known. The thick hides of hippo protect them from the cold but are the skin is vulnerable to sunburn. There are two species of hippo found in Africa, the large hippos are found south of the Sahara in numbers that often require cropping or culling. This is done to control populations that become larger than the habitat can sustain. The other species is a Forrest dweller ( pygmy hippo) restricted to West Africa, this species is now sadly rare. The larger species is a dangerous aggressive animal equipped with huge teeth. The teeth are sharp tusklike canines that cause terrible wounds when hippos fight and can easily crush a canoe or crocodile. Hippos swim easily in water and can even walk on the river bed with ease. The hippo is well equipped for an aquatic life with its ears, eyes and nostrils set high on their heads. The ears and nostrils can be closed when diving underwater, the animals can stay underwater in excess of five minutes at a time.

72. Day Trips To add to the experience crocodiles, turtles, pygmy hippos, wild dogs, and endearingfamily animals such as suricates, emus, wallabies, raccoons, flamingos http://www.knysna-info.co.za/english/content.asp?sectionid=176

73. WINCHESTER'S WILD WORLD - RESORT NEWS AND EVENTS You're are invited to experience Winchester's wild World which includes regulartalks on topics ranging from fly Tigers are often associated with hippos. http://www.winchestermarketing.com/events/events.html

events@winchestermarketing.com NGWENYA LODGE Experience the thrill of Tiger fishing and viewing Big Game while staying at Ngwenya - only 4.5h from Gauteng Talk tigers and most locals automatically think of the Zambezi River and its impoundments such as Kariba and Cabora Bassa. It's not as widely known that South Africa has its own tigerfish populations in the Incomati River System at Komatipoort and in the Pongola system in Kwa-Zulu Natal. These tigerfish populations are however limited in size and as such are in urgent need of protection. Recognizing this FOSAF (The Federation of Southern African Flyfishers) has launched a Tigerfish Working Group whose aim is to boost the awareness of tigerfish and the importance of wisely managed conservation practices. Based on the successes of its Yellowfish Working Group, the new FOSAF Tigerfish Working Group will provide guidelines and initiate projects for the protection and conservation of this legendary African gamefish. The Komati River offers exciting opportunities for taking tigers on Fly Tigerfish are not only one of the fastest and most aggressive freshwater fish on earth but also one of the most challenging to catch on fly. Exciting opportunities for taking tigers on fly exist in the Komati River in the vicinity of Komatipoort. Local fisherman occasionally report landing tigers of over 6kg. According to local Komatipoort fly fishing expert, Domien van Buynder, tigerfish are probably one of the most challenging fish to catch on a fly. His personal best for the Komati River is a whopping 5.5kg.

74. UC Davis Magazine, Summer 2002: Where The Wild Things Are fishing cats and red pandas as well as rhinos, elephant, hippos, giraffes, seals mayinstill a desire to help preserve animals’ natural habitats in the wild. http://www-ucdmag.ucdavis.edu/su02/feature_1.html

Volume 19 Number 4 Summer 2002 Features An African Son The Mighty Are Falling Departments Campus Views Letters Class Notes End Notes Where the Wild Things Are By Tom Hall Lucy Spelman (Photo: Richard Strauss/Smithsonian National Zoo) Tian Tian and Mei Xiang had traveled in individual crates, which were now placed in their new home. The crates were opened, and the pandas slowly began to explore. Tian Tian (Photo: Jessie Cohen/Smithsonian National Zoo) A year later, she moved to Raleigh, N.C., to participate in what was at the time a brand-new three-year residency program in zoological medicine, administered by North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the North Carolina State Zoological Park. Upon completion of the program, she became the first veterinarian to complete a residency, qualify and pass the board certification examination in zoological medicine within the same year. She is one of only about 50 board-certified zoo veterinarians in the country. Then she moved again, this time to care for the 3,500 animals at the 163-acre National Zoo, first as an associate veterinarian and then, in September 1999, as head veterinarian. Spelman said she loves all facets of her job, although several have little to do with her veterinary training, like marketing, fund-raising, personnel management and finances. Spelman acknowledges that her learning curve has been steep, but that teamwork is the key.

75. Wild Safari Animal Park Of Africa wild Safari Animal Park of Africa Masai Mara in Kenya, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro smoothhills, the chocolate Mara river waters with frolicking hippos, as well as http://www.access-africa.com/Wild Safari Animal Park of Africa.htm

76. Wet And Wild Africa They are quite and very much wild and NOT put there for the tourists We saw lots ofbirds, hippos, elephants and crocodiles which most of the tourists insisted http://thestar.com.my/special/online/africa/default.asp

News Business Classifieds e-Cards ... Exclusives A wet and wild African escapade Emily Cheah is a fun-loving 13-year-old who spends most of her time trying to find ways to minimise studying and the only writing she normally does is for school assignments. But after her escapade to Africa, she feels she wants to tell the world about her holiday. She lives in Petaling Jaya with a large assortment of fish, parrots, birds, dogs and miscellaneous humans. By Emily Cheah I almost could not believe I was going to Africa. Sure, my mother kept showing me pictures of the places she had booked weeks before the flight. It never hit me that I was in Africa until the plane touched down and my journey into the Dark Continent officially began. I resolved to capture as much of the memories as possible in my head and also with the handy digital camera that I was given as the official photographer for the family. I didn’t keep a journal but after coming home, I decided to pen down my thoughts on my most memorable holiday ever Day of arrival: Oh, don’t worry I don’t freeze to death yet. That’s why I’m still here and writing this. We wait around in Johannesburg International Airport for three hours. In the meantime, I witness my first ever African sunrise. Seriously! It looks like the one in the Lion King! It’s gorgeous! Even if you are sitting in the middle of an airport. I tried to take pictures of it but proved hard with all the solid steel holding the building up they had in the way and the glass which was a barrier. In the end I settled for a Malaysia Airlines advertisement I took the perfect picture. The wing of an MAS plane with its logo on it in next to the orangey rising sun.

77. A Wild Ride Down The Zambezi A wild Ride Down the Zambezi by Eugene Buchanan The excitement of close encounterswith crocodiles and hippos in their native element thrills some, terrifies http://outside.away.com/great_adventures/zambezi-rafting.html

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78. SCIENCE TECNOLOGY I’ve only seen hippos living in the wild in Africa but I guess that if theyhave the right food and the right water habitat they can do pretty well in http://www.chileannews.cl/Science_tecnology.html

79. John Banovich - Wildlife Artist And Painter Of African Wild Animals And Founder Spending hours grazing at night on shore, hippos return to the water during John Banovich wildlife Artist and Painter of African wild Animals and Founder of http://www.johnbanovich.com/banovich/Cards/go

Out of Africa Art Cards Out of Africa Collection (Click the thumbnails below for full size images) 12 Assorted Folded Art Cards Boxed with Envelopes. 7 7/8" x 10 3/4" Out of Africa Collection: "Cape Thunder" "The dramatic sight of cape buffalo thundering toward you is a humbling experience, to say the least. The sound of their plate-sized hooves pounding the dry, parched African soil mimics the power of a thunderstorm overtaking everything in its path." Out of Africa Collection: "Cheetah Watch" Speed! The cheetah is the fastest land animal on earth. Unlike other big cats, the cheetah does not stalk its prey; it chases after the prey and runs it down. It is able to reach speeds of 70 miles per hour, in just a few seconds – something most racecar drivers can't do! The cheetah prefers to hunt in open savannah where its speed can be of used to the best advantage. Out of Africa Collection: "Confrontation" Hippos are considered the most dangerous animal in Africa. They are very territorial and have little tolerance for intruders. Spending hours grazing at night on shore, hippos return to the water during the heat of the day and always large bulls claiming the best spots. This old bull was kicked out of the main pod and found a small waterhole, which he quickly claimed as his own, and was not about to let an artist interrupt his plans. Out of Africa Collection: "Clash of the Titans" Giraffe are thought of as peaceful almost passive creatures but like all wild animals they possess the ability to display tremendous aggression in a moments notice. What I've always enjoyed about Africa is that one must constantly prepare for the unexpected.

80. Nile Hippopotamus National Zoo/ FONZ specialized at picking ticks and other parasites off of hippos and other African buffalo(Syncerus caffer) Massive wild cattle that travel the savanna in herds http://natzoo.si.edu/Animals/AfricanSavanna/fact-hippo.cfm

Home Animals etc. African Savanna CELEBRATE contentPROTECT content The Naked Truth About Mole Rats The Zoo's Bonus Bustards Activity Guide: Grasslands Cheetah Interpretation Large Mammal Interpretation Small Mammal Interpretation Cheetah Research The Lion's Roar: More than Just Hot Air Saving the Sahel The Bustards National Zoo Accreditation African Savanna: Cheetah Conservation Station Meet the Zoo's Savanna Species ... Indoor Giraffe Cam Related Resources Birds Great Cats Small Mammals ADOPT a Cheetah, Giraffe, Zebra, or Naked Mole-rat! Go on an African Safari Adventure with Friends of the National Zoo. The National Zoo Store Online offers an array of books, educational games, and more related to the African Savanna. Visit the Smithsonian's African Art Museum Nile Hippopotamus Order: Artiodactyla Family: Hippopotamidae Genus and Species: Hippopotamus amphibius A land animal adapted for an amphibious life, this bulky animal wallows by day and grazes on land by night. Physical Description : Bulky and barrel-shaped, Nile hippos may look clumsy, but they are supremely adapted to their mixed terrestrial/aquatic lifestyle. Their eyes, ears, and nostrils (which close when the animals submerge) sit atop their heads. They have wide snouts and thick lips for grazing terrestrial grasses. Hippos vary from brown to grayish purple, with pink underparts and skin creases. Their skin consists of a thick dermis (up to 1-3/4 inches thick) covered by thin epidermis that is protected by a red excretion that serves as sunscreen and probably as a disinfectant. Hippos are virtually hairless, with bristles only on their noses, ears, and tails.

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