Do elephants and hippos get along? Watch what happens when a herd of elephants encounters a sleeping group of hippos.
Baby Hippo. Image by Min An via Pexels. Gorillas face threats from deforestation and hunting, while hippos face danger from habitat destruction and illegal hunting for their ivory-like teeth. We must ...
They are extremely hard ivory, surpassing even that of an elephant. They never stop growing and are sharpened when they grind them against one another, making them even deadlier. Hippos use these ...
Kneeling was suggested to get lower to the mother-daughter duo. The four were in hippo heaven. It was fun to watch them gleefully feed them. Iris often opened her mouth widely displaying her huge, ...
In Ancient Egypt, hippos had a dual image. While they were hunted for their meat, skin, and ivory-like teeth, hippos were also linked to Taweret, the goddess of fertility and childbirth. Statues and ...
Sadly, both hippos and elephants are in danger from human poachers. Poachers kill elephants for their ivory tusks. Hippo teeth are made of the same material but are easier to obtain and are also ...