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Males travel as far as needed when looking for their own territory. Both females and males will travel if there is a drought and are unable to locate water. No telling how far that could be but they will keep going until they die if they must. How far would you travel for water if you were in a desert?
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∙ 8y agoA hippopotamus will spend all day wallowing in water while the sun is hot. They will come out on land at night to graze on grasses, returning to the cooling water at dawn.
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∙ 10y ago85% they spend most of their time cooling off in water and mud
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∙ 12y agoThere entire life 19 hours a day
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What do hippos do to keep cool?
They submerge their bodies into pools of water.
Do hippos live in water all the time or on land?
Hippos are land and water animals. Their territory tends to mostly stay in the river they reside in and on its banks. They are built to be masters of both land and water. Hippos are land animals that spend most of their time in water.
Where does the hippopotamus give birth?
Hippos are aquatic almost. They spend most of their time, feed, procreate and give birth in the water.
Where does a duck spend its time?
They tend to spend much of their time in and around various bodies of water.
Where do penguins spend much of their time?
In the water
What is a hippopotamus's home called?
Hippos like to swim under water sit in mud hippos can eat up to 100lbs of grass There is no name of the shelter hippos have, but they hide under the mud and grasses. Hippos sleep in the water but not under water.
What are the habitats of hippos?
hippos live in large rivers of central Africa and are concidered very dangerous animals. They have been known to turn boats and bite persons in the water wich have lost extremities due to the bite. They spend most of their time in the river waters.
Is hippo wild animal?
Yes, hippos are wild animals. They forage and spend time submerged in rivers.
How much time do whales spend in water?
Except for a few seconds when leaping into the air, whales spend ALL of their time in the water. They cannot move on land.
What do hippopotomus eat?
Hippos are herbivores and their diet consists mainly of grass and some water plants. Hippos do most of their eating during the night, while during the day hippos spend most of their time basking in the sun on a sandbar or floating lazily in the water with just their ears, eyes, and nostrils, and perhaps their back and top of the head, exposed. and the ocasional small child when they raid villages
Why docrocodiles spend so much time in water if they are reptiles?
They have learned by hiding in the water, they can sneak up on their prey, grab it, and drown it. Then, eat it at their leisure. They are big, and the water supports their large bodies. The water is much cooler than the hot land. The water makes it's easier for their large body to get around. A crocodile on land would have to compete for prey with a bear or a big cat. A crocodile in the water does not have much competition for the same type of prey that it eats. Crocodiles are like seals and hippos. Although they are land animals a great deal of the time, they have learned to adapt to spend most of their lives in the water.
How does hippos keep cool?
In greek history, they called hippos water horse's because they thought hippos looked like a horse very well, but the hippos spent a lot of time in the water so they called them water horse's. But then, most of the people in the world changed it to hippopotamus.
