Pygmy hippopotamus pair🦛

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SpeciesArtiodactylaHippopotamidae
Mammals

🦛Pygmy hippopotamus

Choeropsis liberiensis (Morton, 1849)

倭河马(学名:Choeropsis liberiensis)又称侏儒河马,为河马科倭河马属的物種,为濒危野生动植物种国际贸易公约附录II所列的保护动物。分布于西非的热带雨林與沼澤中,主要分布於賴比瑞亞,並有部分個體分布於塞拉利昂、幾內亞以及象牙海岸。倭河馬為河馬科仅有的两个的倖存種之一。 倭河马生活於密林之中,數量稀少且為夜行性,一直到19世紀才被西非以外的人所知。在20世紀初倭河馬被引進動物園,大多科學家針對倭河马的行為研究多半來自這些人工圈養繁殖的個體。國際自然保護聯盟估計目前倭河馬存活的野生個體數量少於3,000頭。 倭河马主要受到的威脅是來自於棲息地的喪失,大量的森林被砍伐作為農地。牠們同時也受到偷獵、掠食者與戰爭的威脅,在賴比瑞亞有時會被獵取作為叢林肉販售。

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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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Facts and figures

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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