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From River Giants to Pygmy Fighters: 10 Must-Know Hippo Facts

Is anything cuter than a baby hippo? Fans of Thailand’s Khoa Kheow Open Zoo don’t think so. The zoo recently held a four-day festival dedicated to their most famous resident: a pygmy hippo named Moo ...
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Monk and entrepreneur team up to deploy revolutionary 'Hippo' boat in major river — here's what you need to know

An unlikely partnership between a Buddhist monk, an entrepreneur, and a High Impact Plastic Pollution remOver ("Hippo") boat is helping to tackle Bangkok's plastic pollution with inspiring results.
Mongabay

River of giants: Canoe team tracks hippos in one of Africa’s last strongholds

A team from The Wilderness Project has conducted a survey of hippos along Zambia’s Kafue River, one of the last strongholds of the species in Southern Africa. The expedition faced regular close ...
JSTOR Daily

Alternative Biogeochemical States of River Pools Mediated by Hippo Use and Flow Variability

Christopher L. Dutton, Amanda L. Subalusky, Stephen K. Hamilton, Ella C. Bayer, Laban Njoroge, Emma J. Rosi, David M. Post https://www.jstor.org/stable/48762607 Copy ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Patti, the 55-year-old hippo at the Milwaukee County Zoo, has died

Patti — a river hippopotamus and a favorite animal at the Milwaukee County Zoo since she arrived in 1972 — has died. Patti was humanely euthanized on Sunday, Nov. 10. According to a statement from the ...