ANSWER TO THE QUESTION IS:
Basically it is in a dirty pond and in a forest.
They adapt do it to wash. But more with the answer, A hippo's habitat is like were you find crocodiles however crocodiles don't live with hippo's. They spend most of their time asleep in the smelly dirty pond, bathing, or under the water.
Hippos are widely distributed in the African Continent. They were found even in Europe long time ago, but were extirpated. These days, they are found in good numbers in rivers and lakes of Uganda, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa etc. They usually prefer rivers or permanent water sources which are nearby lush green grasslands.
The habitat of the hippos varies from grasslands, rivers, swamps and lakes. They are amphibious mammals but do not survive in very deep waters.
near lakes or swamps
Hippo's habitat are near lakes.
Hippos generally live in muddy riverbanks, as they like water and mud.
People are trying to find the pygmy hippos a suitable habitat. But, war in the area is preventing people from finding a suitable habitat for pygmy hippos. Most pygmy hippos live in zoos. In zoos the pygmy hippos are safe from hunters and natural predators. Pygmy hippos have plenty of food and water in the zoos. The zoo keepers breed the pygmy hippos. Also, some people are keeping pygmy hippos as pets.
Ponds, Lakes or rivers.
Do hippos live in the ocean?
Hippos do NOT live in the rainforest they live in Africa.
Most every animal that lives in Africa and comes around where hippos live, which include but are not limited to elephants, lions, gazelles, wildebeest, giraffes, hartebeest, warthogs, crocodiles, zebras, leopards, oxpeckers, storks, flamingoes, etc.
HIppos can only live in and along rivers, so most of the Sahara would be inhospitable. However, along the Nile River, as it passed through the Sahara, created a suitable habitat for hippos. However, due to human activity, hippos no longer live there.
All hippos live in Africa. Common hippos live near water sources and pygmy hippos live in jungles.
nothing and no one live with hippos except their babies
aggression or retreating to its watery habitat
The preferred habitat of the Hippopotamus is deep water with adjacent reed beds and grasslands. Hippos have been found throughout all of subsaharan Africa. Currently, the only large populations of hippos occur in the Nile river valley of East Africa.