The Hippos

ISBN: 9780856611315 出版年：2010 页码：195 S K Eltringham Bloomsbury Publishing

Hippos are unusual in being genuinely amphibious. This has a fundamental effect on their physiology and way of life. Following a general introduction, there is a detailed description of hippo anatomy and physiology, including facts about their skin structure and physiologchapters are devoted to their social biology and ecology, including descriptions of their breeding and feeding ecology. Several extraordinary instances of carnivory, including an instance of cannibalism, are described.Thwith three chapters devoted to the results of the author's survey on the distribution and abundance of the common hippo throughout Africa."