The common hippopotamus ("Hippopotamus amphibius"), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous animal
That is a huge heavy animal too
After the elephant and rhinoceros, the common hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mamma
Wow that good information to know.I think it would be amazing to see one out in real life
The common hippopotamus inhabits rivers, lakes and mangrove swamps
I didn't know that either. You are very knowledgable in that field. So WHERE do they sleep ?
On the ground.   They are native to sub-Saharan Africa
That's a vwry hot area. I guess thats why they like rivers, la=kes and swamps
League as well. The UN Development Program lists 46 of Africa’s 54 countries as “sub-Saharan,” excluding Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan and Tunisia.
The Sahel is the transitional zone in between the Sahara and the tropical savanna of the Sudan region and farther south the forest-savanna mosaic of tropical Africa.
Since probably 3500 BCE, the Saharan and sub-Saharan regions of Africa have been separated by the extremely harsh climate of the sparsely populated Sahara,
Hippopotamus
The common hippopotamus ("Hippopotamus amphibius"), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal and ungulate native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus ("Choeropsis liberiensis" or "Hexaprotodon liberiensis"). The name comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse" (). After the elephant and rhinoceros, the common hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal and the heaviest