Species group · Mammals

Hippopotamuses

WAnimals has 2 species of hippopotamus, in the family Hippopotamidae.

2 species

1 family

43 countries

34 parks

Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.

All 2 species of hippopotamuses on WAnimals

Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.

1 Vulnerable1 Endangered

2 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.

Recorded in 43 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:

Despite its semi-aquatic life it can neither swim nor float in the ordinary sense; it gets about by walking along the bottom.
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It can hold its breath for 90 seconds shortly after being born.
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It eats up to 40 kg of grass a night on land.
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It is far more solitary and forest-dwelling than its relative the common hippopotamus, and is among the least studied large African mammals in the wild.
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