Still sleeping?! It’s time to get up, go for a swim, and then… lay back down again and take a nap again.
“These animals lead two very different lives. During the day, they congregate in watery areas, resting and sometimes cavorting. Males often face-off and squabble. Sometimes they injure each other, or young hippos, with their long canine teeth. They sometimes also trample young. By night, hippos graze on land alone, except for mothers with attendant young, which feed together. While Nile hippos are usually sluggish on land, they can gallop at up to 30 miles per hour. Underwater, they are graceful, “galloping” and walking on river or lake bottoms,” (Smithsonian National Zoo).
Remember those ballerina hippos?
