males ranged between 1500-1800 kg
and females between 1300-1,500 kg
here's some additional info from the san Diego zoo...
Weight: males-3,525 to 7,055 pounds (1,600 to 3,200 kilograms); females-average 3,086 pounds (1,400 kilograms)
Encyclopædia Britannica lists the hippo's mature weight as a hefty 3.3 to 5 tons, The Encyclopedia of Animals: Mammals reports it as a respectable 5300 pounds, and Zoo Animals: A Smithsonian Guide states that it is a mere 2500 pounds. According to the London Zoo, the highest recorded weight for a mature hippo is 8,920 pounds.
A hippopotamus will eat at least 150 pounds of grass each night and they manly stay under water most of the time.
Your question is very broad, but there's a poem,"The Hippopotamus" by T.S Eliot that uses a Lazy christian as a hippo.
not a joke...it is its weight to sit on enemies
The hippopotamus reproduces sexually in much the same way as other mammals.
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20 kilos
12 km
A hippopotamus is a mammal, and therefore does not lay an egg. They give birth to live young much in the same way that humans do.
A hippopotamus is a mammal, and therefore does not lay an egg. They give birth to live young much in the same way that humans do.
=there are two kinds of hippopotamus such as the river hippopotamus and the pygmy hippopotamus but both live in Africa.=
i think it is because they eat so much and they do not run a lot.Answeri think hippos weight so much because they have only i belly but it is huge!and donnot run at all
=there are two kinds of hippopotamus such as the river hippopotamus and the pygmy hippopotamus but both live in africa.=