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RE: Animal Series #15; Hungry Hungry Hippos
All this facts about hippo
they were able to sprint off as fast as 30 km/h over a few hundred metres.
Something I would not think of due to try fact that they are really big
eat up to 40 kg of grass per day
Explains where the fatness comes from
Nice one about hippopotamus..... Are they part of the pig family? sorry for the almost silly question... Too many outward Similarities
Nope. They were never related to the pig family. Most of the data and genetic evidence have pointed out hippos of being closely related to whales, not to a pig. Sure, whales are closely related to Indohyus or India's pig which has extinct making it plausible to assume their relatedness to hippos as well but both of hippos and whales were never closely related to the living pigs.
Thanks for that