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Name: Hippopotamus, Family Hippopotamus
Description: Large, mostly aquatic mammal with thick, dark, almost hairless skin, short legs, and wide-mouthed muzzle
Location: Africa
Special Features:
Grow up to 11 feet
Can weigh over 7000 pounds
Albino Rhinos are bright pink
Nocturnal feeders
Gather in herds
Huge lower canine teeth
Average life span of 45 years
Continuously growing teeth
Spend a great deal of time in water but can't swim
Diet: Mainly eat grasses and reeds, aquatic plants and other vegetation
Neat Fact: A Hippos lips are almost two feet wide.
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