The Hippopotamus

By Bill

What’s big, brownish gray and has huge tusks?  The hippopotamus!  The hippo lives in rivers and lakes in Africa.  Hippos feed on the plants in and by the river they live in.

Young hippos are prey for lions and crocs.  But adults

protect there young by using their tusk-like teeth.  The

first Africans thought the hippo was a monster.  The  

hippo is even related to pigs and weighs 8,000 pounds!

The hippopotamus is a great animal!