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Pygmy hippopotamus is a small species of hippopotamus native to the forests and swamps of West Africa, significantly smaller than the common hippopotamus
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- A large four-toed, four-legged mammal native to western Africa (Hexaprotodon liberiensis, syn. Choeropsis liberiensis), similar to but half the height of the common hippopotamus.
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Mine was to see the pygmy hippopotamus.
The pygmy hippopotamus is hunted by native cultures and eaten as a delicacy.
And we decided to go with pygmy hippopotamus.
Nomenclature of the pygmy hippopotamus reflects that of the hippopotamus.
Several folktales have been collected about the pygmy hippopotamus.
The pygmy hippopotamus tends to prefer forest habitats with bodies of water.
The animals were very similar to the extant hippopotamus and pygmy hippopotamus.
The pygmy hippopotamus is more partial to land than its river relative.
His latest obsession is to own a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia.
It is the pygmy hippopotamus which is usually known to inhabit the forested areas.
Hexaprotodon is a genus of Hippopotamidae that is sometimes applied to the pygmy hippopotamus.
The ancestral form of the pygmy hippopotamus may be the genus Saotherium.
At the Zoo he worked with the antelopes before becoming the lead pygmy hippopotamus keeper.
The Nigerian pygmy hippopotamus was never studied in the wild and never captured.
Calvin Coolidge had a pet pygmy hippopotamus named Billy.
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The pygmy hippopotamus is native to West Africa.
Faunal extinction in an island society, pygmy hippopotamus hunters of Cyprus.
The pygmy hippopotamus is capable of being killed by leopards, pythons and crocodiles.
It was, however, significantly larger than the modern pygmy hippopotamus.
Yamashitakun's pygmy hippopotamus idea sounds interesting too.
The pygmy hippopotamus belongs to a different genus in Hippopotamidae, either Choeropsis or Hexaprotodon.
Here, the first ever complete specimens of the pygmy hippopotamus ( Choeropsis liberiensis ) were collected.
A male pygmy hippopotamus is known as a bull, a female as a cow, and a baby as a calf.
The hippopotamus and pygmy hippopotamus are the whale's closest terrestrial living relatives.
Baby pygmy hippopotamus stands near its parent at a zoo in Jihlava, Czech Republic.
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