HIPPOPOTAMI. 
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Tzana-Dembea, at an elevation of over six thousand feet above the sea-level. The 
existing species is unknown in Madagascar: but from the reference to it in the 
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A FAMILY PARTY OF HIPPOPOTAMI nat. size). 
Bible, under the name of Behemoth, it is just possible that it may have inhabited 
Palestine within the historic period. 
In the Pleistocene and upper portion of the Pliocene epoch a large hippopotamus 
