verb (used with object), trundled, trundling. 1. to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll. 2. to convey or move in a wagon, cart, or other wheeled vehicle; wheel: The farmer trundled his produce to market in a rickety wagon.
Hippos are threatened by habitat loss and poachers who hunt them for their meat and teeth. A male hippopotamus is called a âbullâ. A female hippopotamus is called a âcowâ. A baby hippo is called a âcalfâ. A group of hippos in known as a âherdâ, âpodâ, âdaleâ or âbloatâ. Hippos typically live for around 45 years. Hippos eat mostly grass.
Baby opossums, like baby kangaroos, are called joeys; adult male and female opossums are jacks and jills. With the briefest gestation period of any mammalâabout 12 daysâthe blind and hairless newborns crawl through their motherâs fur into the pouch, where they nurse for roughly 100 days.