Compared to humans - yes.
Several minutes is no big deal to a hippo.
I think a whale can stay under water for a longer period of time
By closing the hippos ears and nostrils, the adult hippo can stay under water for as long as six minutes.
To go under water they close their ears and nostrils. An adult hippo can stay under water for up to 6 minutes!
how long can garter snakes stay under water?
They can stay under water for 10 seconds.
Hippo can stay in water for 16 hours
they are amphibians
a few of the sea animals cannot stay under water for a long time.
The answer is that it likes to stay at the water as that is the hippo adaptation
Crawfish can stay under water for 1-2 miutes at a time.Also, so can the Crayfish.
The hippopotamus lives in and around water. They have adapted to a watery existence. They will come out at night to graze on grasses, returning to spend most of the hot day in cooling water. A hippo can even suffer from sunburn if out of the water too long. They are also very territorial, with the bull hippo always ready to drive off interloping males.
iguanas stay a periods of time?