REALITY CHECK: A million years of evolution is telling me" 'you're no cowboy' - MLive.com
21 February 2012, 10:00 am
I would feel the same way around an elephant, a hungry lion, or an enraged hippopotamus. My Neolithic ancestors didn’t live to adulthood by trying to pet the saber tooth tigers. Being a big fat chicken is an important part of my genetic makeup ...

Presidents’ Day: five facts you didn’t know about George Washington - The Christian Science Monitor
20 February 2012, 8:07 am
In one set of teeth, his dentist, Dr. John Greenwood, used a cow’s tooth, one of Washington’s teeth, hippopotamus ivory, metal and springs. Because of their poor fit, his various dentures distorted the shape of his mouth, and, needless to say ...

Feral Island Cats Expelled to Ramona - msnbc.com
17 February 2012, 12:43 pm
Ramona’s Fund for Animals Wildlife Rehabilitation Center keeps not only big cats like lions and mountain lions but also birds and a pygmy hippopotamus.

Clover Whitham: No holds barred for decadence at Holder - Burlington Free Press
17 February 2012, 4:14 am
The portion was less daunting, but the heavy sauce made sure I would be walking back to the hotel more like a hippopotamus than a gazelle. My dining partner ordered the duck confit, because when in Montreal .. . It was everything he drooled ...

Academic achievement more important than which cap a kid puts on - Eatonton Messenger
16 February 2012, 8:41 am
"They don't seem to care that some of these kids don't know the difference between a hippopotamus and a hypotenuse because they are being coddled by boosters and deified by the media and that the real heroes are the hard-working young people intent on ...

Dick Yarbrough: Why not a signing day of a different kind? - Marietta Daily Journal
14 February 2012, 10:48 pm
They don’t seem to care that some of these kids don’t know the difference between a hippopotamus and a hypotenuse because they are being coddled by boosters and deified by the media and that the real heroes are the hard-working young people intent on ...

How fast can a hippo run? - The Daily Star
13 February 2012, 11:50 am
A hippopotamus may seem huge but it can still run faster than a man. Hippos are the second-largest land animal -- second only to elephants. Male hippos can weigh more than 6,000 pounds. Females are more "delicate," topping out around 3,000 pounds.

Uganda: Tax Collectors Join UWA to Fight Export of Ivory - AllAfrica.com
12 February 2012, 5:56 pm
At least 176 pieces of Ivory weighing 162kg, 189 pieces of hippopotamus teeth weighing 37kg and a number of monitor lizards' skins whose number could not be ascertained were recovered from Katuna, Pakwach, Mutukula and Entebbe Airport in the last one month.

Canadian pair portray a long-lost Arctic world - Winnipeg Free Press
11 February 2012, 3:17 am
Among the unexpected inhabitants of ancient Ellesmere was the coryphodon, a semi-aquatic mammal resembling the modern hippopotamus and known from fossilized bone and teeth found on the High Arctic island. Although Ellesmere was situated nearly ...

Oscar nominee 'Pina,' like its muse, breaks all the rules - Crosscut.com
10 February 2012, 3:47 am
I can never forget the hippopotamus. It was a lovelorn one at that, wallowing in a lagoon of a few inches of water on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It was 1985, and my first time seeing the work of Pina Bausch, the German ...