![]() ![]() People can also express their love, care, and respect to anyone they consider important in their life. Couples could get as imaginative as they want. Happy valentine day horae how to#Being a day that celebrates companionship, affection, and appreciation, there is no set rule on how to express them. Some take their partners out to dinners and others plan a surprise at home. It is that time of the year when couples express their love for each other in varied ways. ![]() In water, the mother helps.Like every year, Valentine's Day will be celebrated on February 14 this year. Fact #9 A single young is born either on land or in shallow water. Soon after birth, mother and young join schools that provide some protection against crocodiles, lions, and hyenas. Each female has only one calf every two years. Fact #8 Hippo calves weigh nearly 100 pounds at birth and can suckle on land or underwater by closing their ears and nostrils. Limited to very restricted ranges in West Africa, it is a shy, solitary forest dweller, and now rare. The other, much smaller (440 to 605 pounds) species of hippo is the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis). This social, group-living mammal is so numerous in some areas that "cropping" schemes are used to control populations that have become larger than the habitat can sustain. The large hippo, found in East Africa, occurs south of the Sahara. The hippo has neither sweat nor sebaceous glands but does have unique glands that produce a viscous red fluid, leading to the myth that hippos "sweat blood." Fact #7 Two hippo species are found in Africa. Fact #6 With very thick skin, especially over the back and rump, the grayish-brown body is almost completely hairless, with only a few bristles around the mouth and the tip of the tail. They are ivory, valued even more highly than an elephant’s because they do not turn yellow with age. Fact #4 Hippos are efficient grazers - their lips are almost two feet wide! Fact #5 The tusk-like incisors and canines grow continuously. If threatened on land hippos may run for the water-they can match a human's speed for short distances. Considering their enormous size, a hippo's food intake is relatively low. They may travel 6 miles in a night, along single-file pathways, to consume some 80 pounds of grass. Fact #3 At sunset, hippopotamuses leave the water and travel overland to graze. Their modest appetites are due to their sedentary life, which does not require high outputs of energy. They exit and enter the water at the same spots and graze for four to five hours each night in loop patterns, covering one or two miles, with extended forays up to five miles. Fact #2 Amazingly agile for their bulk, hippos are good climbers and often traverse rather steep banks each night to graze on grass. Their eyes and nostrils are located high on their heads, which allows them to see and breathe while mostly submerged in water. Hippos are graceful in water, good swimmers, and can hold their breath underwater for up to five minutes! However, they are often large enough to simply walk or stand on the lake floor, or lie in the shallows. Aren't these hippos too cute? Fact #1 Hippopotamuses love water, which is why the Greeks named them the "river horse." Hippos spend up to 16 hours a day submerged in rivers and lakes to keep their massive bodies cool under the hot African sun. ![]() NEXT POST The Water Horse ~ The Hippopotamuses Hi Horse Pals ~ Here's my latest newspaper article. ![]()
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