Huge herbivores

Usage examples of hippos.

He continued staring at the German as the bellowing of the hippos began again.

Rice, raising his voice as the chorus of hippos started up once again.

But though there were great herbivores to fill the roles of antelopes, elephants, hippos, and wildebeests, and predators who hunted like lions, cheetahs, and hyenas, these animals were more closely related to birds than to any mammal.

In Africa there were archaic-looking long-necked giant herbivores and creatures like hippos with fat, low-slung bodies and powerfully clawed thumbs.

And what would later be considered tropical animals could be found in North America, Europe, and Asia: In England, the Thames was broad and swampy, and hippos and elephants basked on its floodplain.

In eastern Europe and Asia there were hippos, wild sheep, and goat, red, roe, and fallow deer, boar, asses, wolves, hyenas, and jackals.

This pool was the ideal haunt of both hippos and crocodiles, and Claudia Monterro was in it up to her waist.

Once they splashed into one of the muddy pools of the stream, and they sounded like a herd of cavorting hippos in the silence.

She imported pictures of hippos from her archive to the clothes processor to decorate the suit.

Purple hippos with wide eyes looked over the side of the honey-gold basket.

We disturb land-grazing hippos, who crash back onto the river, sending violent waves toward us.

Janie walked, smiling, past the gibbons howling in their habitat and the pygmy hippos floating calmly in their pool, their eyes shut, green bubbles breaking around them like little fish.