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Hippopotamus Collection (#2)

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Pygmy Hippopotamus

Pygmy Hippopotamus

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippopotamus Screaming

Hippopotamus Screaming
A hippo in a pool at a zoo, shouting its head off! Date: early 1930s

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Sudan - Africa - Shilluk Hippo Hunters at Hillet Abbas

Sudan - Africa - Shilluk Hippo Hunters at Hillet Abbas
Shilluk Hippo Hunters at Hillet Abbas, Al Wusta, Sudan, Africa. The Shilluk (who now prefer to be known as Chollo), are a major Nilotic ethnic group of Southern Sudan

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Pygmy elephant tooth

Pygmy elephant tooth shown here next to one of normal size. Discovered around 1901 by Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951)

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: A Tropical Bathing-Place

A Tropical Bathing-Place
Plate 10 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Tooth of Hippopotamus amphibius

Tooth of Hippopotamus amphibius

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippopotamus amphibius, hippopotamus

Hippopotamus amphibius, hippopotamus
Plate 67 The Hippopotamus. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 2, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine (1800-1874)

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Ipswichian interglacial

Ipswichian interglacial
Possible scene in Trafalgar Square, London, during the Ipswichian interglacial period (135, 000-70, 000 years before present) with hyena, elephant, hippopotamus, and lion

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Thames Valley in the Ipswichian Interglacial

Thames Valley in the Ipswichian Interglacial
Artists impression of the Thames Valley during the Ipswichian interglacial (135, 000 to 70, 000 years before present), with an elephant, hyaena, and hippopotami

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Fragment of Egyptian fabric with hippopotamus

Fragment of Egyptian fabric with hippopotamus of the Fatimid period (9th c.). Islamic art. Textiles. EGYPT. Cairo. Museum of Islamic Arts

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippos Dental Check

Hippos Dental Check
A little girl helps the zoo keeper to give a hippopotamus a dental check! Date: early 1930s

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: A Hippo Gaping

A Hippo Gaping
A hippopotamus gapes its large mouth, displaying the powerful lower tusks. Date: 1901

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Brushing Hippos Teeth

Brushing Hippos Teeth

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippo Studies

Hippo Studies

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: The Crowded pool

The Crowded pool
She wanted some water and What do you think? A big hippopotamus Come down to drink I think it should be- Ladies first. said she Or I m sure there will not Be a drop left for me

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: View of stamer, traps and dead hippo / Livingstone expedition

View of stamer, traps and dead hippo / Livingstone expedition
View of Dr. David Livingstones steamer, the Lady Nyassa which he had built in Britain and shipped over in sections, with a dead hippopotamus, caught by traps, in the foreground

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Sudan - Shulluck Hippo Hunters at Hillet-Abbas

Sudan - Shulluck Hippo Hunters at Hillet-Abbas

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Ancient Egyptian Masks

Ancient Egyptian Masks
The masks worn by ancient Egyptian priests generally represented animals, symbolising their deities - birds, dogs, hippopotamus etc

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippopotamus C1880S

Hippopotamus C1880S
A hippopotamus with its front legs in the river and its back legs still on the bank

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippopotami 1909

Hippopotami 1909
Three hippopotami (hippopotamus amphibius), one of them with his mouth wide open and a lovely set of teeth

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Various animals

Various animals: Tapir, Hippopotamus, Domestic Pig, and Wild Boar

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Livingstone / Hippo

Livingstone / Hippo
His boat is rammed by a hippopotamus, displeased because its young have been shot by the expedition

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Huge Hippo and People

Huge Hippo and People
An extraordinary depiction of a hippopotamus savaging hunters in an exotic landscape - it is the size of an elephant, and seems more a creature of land than water

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippopotamus Zoo

Hippopotamus Zoo
Regents Park zoo, London Visitors admire the hippopotamus pair

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippo at the Keyboard

Hippo at the Keyboard
Hippo at the keyboard

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Book of the Dead / 37

Book of the Dead / 37
God of the underworld, and of vegetation : associated with the mortuary goddess Serket in this painting showing him in a shrine to Hathor as hippopotamus

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Bewick / Tapir

Bewick / Tapir
(tapirus terrestris) This is the South American Tapir, classified by Linnaeus as a hippopotamus : it avoids its predators by diving into water

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: Hippopotamus (Bewick)

Hippopotamus (Bewick)
Hippopotamus amphibius

Background imageHippopotamus Collection: A hippopotamus with its young

A hippopotamus with its young, at the waterside



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