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Hippopotamus pool in Serengeti natural spring water
During the dry season, Hippos get a bit cranky for being stuck in tiny spring water like these. Note the one dead hippo belly up, a German research center located in the Serengeti suggests it died of a disease. Disease is not the only threat to hippos. Now that Rhinos are near extinct, each individual in the Serengeti 24/7 GPS-tracked, poachers are moving on to Hippo tusks, as a source of imaginary magical powers, but above all, as a source of money.
The hippopotamus, or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae. The name comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse". After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal and the heaviest extant artiodactyl.
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