10 FACT ABOUT HIPPOPTAMUS

1 the animal we know as ''hippopotamus'' was first mentioned in English as ''ypotamus'' or ''ypotamos'' in the 14th century.
2 The abbrevation ''hippo'' was first seen in 1872.

3 The word ''hippoptamus '' comes from two Greek word meaning ''river horse''.
4 Because it is Greek not Latin, the plural is ''hippoptamuses'' not ''hippoptami''.



























5 The Ramat Gan Safri in Israel is reported to export more hippos than anywhere else on Earth.
6 Since 1993 when drug lord pablo Escobar was killed, Colombia has faced increasing problems from wild hippos originating from private zoo.
7 The elephant and white rhinoceros are the only animals bigger than a hippo.
8 The usual collective nouns for group of hippos are ''pod'' or ''bloat'' but ''heard'' or ''dale'' and ''crash'' have also been used.
9 Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippoptamus but we do not on that account value him less. ___ Bertrand Russell
10 The hippo is used to be the most dangerous land animals in Africa. Accurate figures are unknow but astimates of the number of people killed by hippo range from 500 to 3,00 a year.

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