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Pygmy Hippopotamus

Choeropsis liberiensis

Pygmy Hippopotamus

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“The Pygmy Hippopotamus is closely related to Africa’s other Hippopotamus species, which is the Common Hippopotamus but is much smaller in size weighing around a fifth of its enormous cousin’s weight. They also spend much less time in the water compared to the Common Hippopotamus and even rest in burrows in the vegetation on river banks. “

Scientific Classification

KINGDOM

Animalia

PHYLUM

Chordata

CLASS

Mammalia

ORDER

Artiodactyla

FAMILY

Hippopotamidae

GENUS

Hippopotamus

Location

West Africa

Mammal

Herbivore

Habitat

Forest, Savanna, Wetlands (inland)

Food

Grasses, Fruits, Leaves

Threat

Poaching
Habitat Destruction

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