hippo skull

why do these herbivores need all those crushing and stabbing tools in their mouths I thought. Its for attack and defense. Hippo can swim at 20km per hour underwater and run at 25km per hour on land, if you get caught between a hippo and the water you better run fast.

St Lucia Wetlands and The Spider Story

January 22nd 2009
*little story* PICKED ON BY NATURE........ The last day before we left the yengele house to head to Durban and onto St Lucia we went for a day walk in a nature reserve. It statred promisingly enough, a nice forest walk and not too hot. Butterflies and birds and seeing a couple of large monitor lizards clattering away through the forest away from us. Then the trail headed into dripping jungle t ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more

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