Hippo
We stopped and had some coffee at a little observatory where a hippo had staked out his claim. We say him squaring up against another hippo encroaching on his space, but the small one backed down before there was a fight. Interestingly, in Afirkaans the Hippopotamus is 'seacow.' Sea Cow for us means manatee- and of course in latin, hippopotamus is literally 'river horse.'
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