

THE HIPPO-FOUR TONS OF AFRICAN ANIMAL LIFE Three Lions 



Never winner in a beauty contest, the hippopotamus can take a runner-up's award 

 for size. It weighs up to 8,000 pounds, is the second largest animal that lives on 

 land today (the elephant is first). A zoo must provide a hippo guest with an 

 enormous swimming pool, for it is most at home in water. It is a vegetarian. 



