Hippopotamus

📸 Photo by Jonathan Göhner on Unsplash

Daylight finds the hippo half-submerged, skin glazed with pink “sun-screen” sweat. At dusk it tramps worn trails, mowing 40 kg of grass. Huge jaws and a foul temper guard a short river bend, making this hefty herbivore one of Africa’s deadliest animals.

Habitat: The Hippopotamus can be found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina-faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central-african-rep, Chad, Congo, Dem-rep-congo, Cote-d-ivoire, Eq-guinea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra-leone, Somalia, South-africa, S-sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe