Show I The Hippopotamus What Is the hippopotamus Its name means river horse but really It is a very lat large ge member of ot the pig family The Greeks called It river horse because they thought It looked rather like HIe a horse and because It certainly lived In rivers ers After the elephant the thc hippopotamus mus is the thc biggest land animal In the world worl it weighs up to four tons tOilS and has leas a n hide nearly two Inches thick Hippos are now found chiefly in the rivers of or central Africa but formerly the they were found all nil over Europe they once even lived as far north 1 rs s 3 the north of Engl England nd |