The Hippopotamus: Endangered Species Report
Date Submitted: 12/22/2004 14:50:03
Category: / Science & Technology / Zoology
Length: 2 pages (647 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Zoology
Length: 2 pages (647 words)
The Hippopotamus: Endangered Species Report
The ban on elephant ivory trading has slowed down the poaching of elephants, but
now poachers are getting their ivory from another creature, the hippopotamus. For
the poacher, the hippo is an easy target. They stay together for long hours in muddy
water pools, as many as eighty-one can be found in a single square mile. This
concentration is so big it's only second to that of the elephant. Poachers …
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…we do here in the U.S.. The fires in
California were barely maintainable. In short, if the hippos die, everything
dependent on the hippo and it's way-of-life also suffers.
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MacDonald, David (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Mammals. Vol. 2. London: George,
Allen & Unwin, 1984.
Redmond, Ian. 'Africa's Four Legged Whale,' Wildlife Conservastion. Jan.-Feb.
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