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Their list mainly included fish, but also mammals like beavers, river dolphins and hippopotami, as well as coldblooded creatures like crocodiles, giant salamanders and alligator snapping turtles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
The idea of a family of hippopotami walking upright on two legs?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2019
Sometimes he dances, rather in the manner of the tutu-clad hippopotami in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2016
The woman turned out to be Rebecca Francis, winner of the 2010 reality show Extreme Huntress, whose website features a gallery of the animals she’s hunted – from hippopotami in Mozambique to moose in Alaska.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2015
They also caught lions, in nets, and hippopotami, in pits, and wild buffaloes, which they pursued with the huge hounds of the Cynamolgian hunters.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus
