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Pygmy hippopotamus pair🦛

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SpeciesArtiodactylaHippopotamidae
Mammals

🦛Pygmy hippopotamus

Choeropsis liberiensis (Morton, 1849)

اسب آبی کوتوله (نام علمی: Choeropsis liberiensis) نام یک گونه از تیره اسب‌آبیان است. مشابه خویشاوند بزرگش است اما پوزه‌ای کوچک‌تر دارد و در مرداب‌های جنگلی غرب آفریقا زندگی می‌کند.

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Also called
Choeropsis liberiensis
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
215 kg
Body length
1.68 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
44 years
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Everything we know about the Pygmy hippopotamus

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
215 kg
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Body length
1.68 m
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Brain mass
260 g
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Maximum lifespan
44 years
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Generation length
14 years
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Age at maturity
4.1 years
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Gestation
200 days
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Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
0.72 km²
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Volume l
215 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Pygmy hippopotamus yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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More about the Pygmy hippopotamus

Closest relative on this site
🐋 Amazon river dolphin — last shared an ancestor ≈ 38 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants90%
fruit10%
In other languages
Hexaprotodon liberiensis (es), Hexaprotodon liberiensis (fr), Hexaprotodon liberiensis (ru), Choeropsis liberiensis (de), Hexaprotodon liberiensis (it), Hexaprotodon liberiensis (bg) … and 20 more languages

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