Where does the hippo originate from?

Answer 1

hippos come from what you call mating. mating is when a male and female have to mate togther.
A hippo communicates with others of it's species by a combination of bellows, and actions - body language also plays a role as with most animals.

Answer 2

From the river bank into the river. They are much to heavy to climb trees. Superregnum: Eukaryota

Regnum: Animalia

Subregnum: Eumetazoa

Superphylum: Deuterostomia

Phylum: Chordata

Subphylum: Vertebrata

Infraphylum: Gnathostomata

Superclassis: Tetrapoda

Classis: Mammalia

Subclassis: Theria

Infraclassis: Placentalia

Superordo: Cetartiodactyla

Ordo: Artiodactyla

Subordo: Suina

Familia: Hippopotamidae

Genus: Hippopotamus

Species: H. amphibius - †H. antiquus - †H. creutzburgi - †H. lemerlei †H. madagascariensis - †H. melitensis - †H. minor - †H. pentlandi

Answer 3

I'm not certain this exactly answered the question; but the hippo and the whale had a common ancestor around 60 million years ago. The ancestor of all mammals is believed to have been a lemur like animal - at least that's the earliest fossil that's been found.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

At one time located all over the African continent

Answer 6

The hippopotamus or hippo, from the ancient Greek for "river horse", is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa.

Answer 7

Greek words hippos meaning "horse" and potamos meaning "river" or "rushing water."