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media type="custom" key="21268776"Explorer - Hannah L PYGMY HIPPOPOTAMUS !

They have smooth skin with no fur, and there skin is black, brown or grey. they have four legs, with feet with four toes, and their head is round and quite narrow, and their eyes are wide apart, and a stubby tail. In captivity they live for 30 - 55 years, but its unlikely for them to live this long in the wild.
 * Classification: **

**Male and Female:** The male pygmy hippopotamus is known as a bull, while the female pygmy hippopotamus is called a cow, and a baby is called a calf. Pygmy's are also very territorial, they protecting and defending their own territories. A female will share her territory with her calf until the calf is old enough to fend for itself. forests and swamps of west Africa. They eat, ferns, and broad leaved plants, and Fruit.


 * Young: **

Pygmy hippo babies, weigh 4.5 - 6.2 kg's when they are born. But males weighing 0.25 kg's more than the females. Pygmy hippo's stop drinking their mothers milk between 6 and 8 months of age. 75- 83 CM tall and are 152 - 177 cm's in length and weigh 180 - 275 kg's.

Forests and swamps of west Africa.
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 * Feeding: **

They eat, ferns, and broad leaved plants, and Fruit. They are herbivores. Their pregnant between 190 - 210 days. They only give birth to one, but some times twins are born.

Their pregnant between 190 - 210 days. They only give birth to one, but some times twins are born.
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 * Conclusion: ** Describe why your animal is interesting to you?

I like my animal because it is cute, and because they look like gloria from madagascar.