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After analyzing videos showing 169 movement cycles from 32 hippos, researchers found that the fastest-moving animals spend around 15% of each stride off the ground.
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Jack Guy, CNN, 4 July 2024
Alex Eickhoff’s design shows a giant hippo ready to chomp on a truck.
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Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 27 June 2024
Last year, a car struck and killed a hippo crossing a highway.
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Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024
Forget about that, a tiny skeleton named Cruncher of Bones is flying through outer space with a talking pink hippo for reasons that no adult could ever hope to explain.
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David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 June 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1850, in the meaning defined above
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“Hippo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hippo. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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More from Merriam-Webster on hippo
Nglish: Translation of hippo for Spanish Speakers
Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about hippo
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