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"A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake."
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The hippopotamus, often shortened to hippo, further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus and river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus. Its name comes from the Ancient Greek for "river horse" (ἱπποπόταμος).
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"Did you ever see the Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus, at the Zoological Gardens, trying to dance a minuet together? It is a touching sight."
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"The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood."
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"There is something about a blurb-writer paying his respects to a funny book which puts one in mind of a short-sighted lord mayor raising his hat to a hippopotamus."
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"The muckle hippopotamus spelders in glaur apo’ his kite. A solid fact he seems tae some. They arena right. The hippo’s coorse digestive tract erodes through frequent emptying. The KIRK’s the only solid fact that winna ding."
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"He thought he saw a Bankers Clerk Descending from the bus: He looked again, and found it was A Hippopotamus: If this should stay to dine, he said, There wont be much for us!"
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"Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair His fair Hippopotamine maid. The Hippopotamus was no ignoramus And sang her this sweet serenade: Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud."
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