hippopotamus

Description:

The skin is dark grey, smooth and naked, pink around the eyes and lips and in the folds. The head is massive, with an enormous, broad muzzle up to half a metre wide, and a huge mouth in wich the upper and lower canine teeth and the incisors are enlarged into tusks. The eyes and ears are small and are set very far back and high on the head.(Smithers' mammals of southern africa a field guide. fourth edition)

Habitat:

water at least 1.5 mt deep

Notes:

We were exciting the park with the few light left when they started yawning at us... preety sweet until you know that their yawns are aggressive signals to send as away. :)