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pygmy hippopotamus

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noun

  1. a small hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, of forests and swamps in western Africa.


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Yang has been known to portray the iceberg that sank the Titanic or the adorable Thai pygmy hippopotamus Moo Deng.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2024

It is the consequence of what may be Ivory Coast's last chance save the most rapidly disappearing forest in Africa, home to endangered chimpanzees, forest elephants and the rare pygmy hippopotamus.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2016

Abstract sculptures by David Brooks are named, in part, for real creatures — the South China tiger, the Sumatran orangutan, the pygmy hippopotamus of West Africa — now on the very brink of extinction.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2014

At the end of my first year of classes, I received an email about an endangered, elusive creature – the pygmy hippopotamus.

From Scientific American • Feb. 1, 2012

The pygmy hippopotamus of West Africa has been seen repeatedly since the 1840s.

From Time Magazine Archive