Hippopotamus

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Current Status
Rating: Vulnerable; recently put on CITES Appendix 2
Population: 157 000 : estimate in 1993
Threats:
  • shooting by farmers when they are forced onto farmland
  • poaching for ivory
  • loss of habitat to agriculture
  • Description

    Classification

    Behaviour

    Relationship with Man

    World Distribution

    Organisations

    Pictures

    Other websites

    References