Deepening restrictions on ivory trafficking have led to an increase of the trade in hippopotamus teeth, wildlife campaigners are warning, with potentially serious effects for a species already ...

Hippo threat display in slow motion.Hippopotamus bulls show off their teeth to intimidate anything that gets too close to their stretch of water, hippo cows and calves will also do it but their teeth ...

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A hippo in a Colombian zoo. The teeth are sharp and the animal is aggressive A Taiwanese tourist has died after being bitten in the chest by a hippo he was trying to photograph in Kenya.

Would the rhino’s horn be more powerful than the hippo’s long sharp teeth? Neither of them looks like they would be fast but ...

Compared with Africa's other big animals, hippos have been relatively neglected in scientific research. Partly, this is because they're hard to study and dangerous to encounter.

cleaning hippo's teeth whenever they open the mouth, foraging for scraps stuck between the hippo's teeth in an unusual mutuality of trust. Rasping mouthparts from fish also cleans the hippo's hide ...

Though hippos are plant-eaters and don’t see humans as food, they’re highly territorial and aggressive in water. Along with their huge teeth and sheer size, this makes them one of the ...

Hippos are threatened by habitat loss and degradation, drought, poaching and the international demand for hippo parts, including teeth, skulls, ivory, skin and meat. Adam Peyman, wildlife programs ...

Hippos are threatened by habitat loss and degradation, drought, poaching, and the international demand for hippo parts, including teeth, skulls, ivory, skin and meat. “This is an important first step ...