No. Usually, hippos live in family groups, usually a single mature bull with several cows and calves. It's actually closer to hippos being polygamists, like certain sects of Mormons. If you want to draw a human parallel.
the opposite to a solitary animal is an non - solitary animal and all this means is a animal that runs alone.
They are solitary animals
it is solitary
A hippopotamus is sometimes called a river horse.
A Hippopotamus
What is a "solitary"? I can find no such animal.
solitary
Well, I know that the Amur leopard is a solitary cat that hunts and eats alone, so I would say the leopard is a solitary animal.
hippopotamus
A really big animal.
barney the purple dinosaur is in solitary confinement for molesting children
african hippopotamus