Hippopotamuses

The days when he sat down with his guests at the lodge's communal table and organized guided tours to see elephants and hippopotamuses are long gone. ❋ Javier Espinoza (2011)

The hippopotamuses are not actual hippopotamuses, they come from a village in Provence called Innebrède. ❋ Jo Nesbo (2011)

It held only a meagre menagerie of mating pairs of alpacas, hippopotamuses, lemurs, musk oxen, and rats, along with one gazelle and one lion cub whose parents had both disappeared after chasing down and devouring the other gazelle. ❋ Strannikov (2012)

A polite way of saying "hookers with the appetites of hippopotamuses in heat." ❋ Will Durst (2010)

From mice and rats to camels and elephants, and even, on occasion, to a rhinoceros or a pair of hippopotamuses, he could supply any animal on demand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Something about hippopotamuses and their limousines … ❋ Jo Nesbo (2011)

Almost everyone there is related to each other and they all look like hippopotamuses. ❋ Jo Nesbo (2011)

‡‡ In Europe, there lived monkeys, elephants, and hippopotamuses. ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

You know that weird fact about how hippopotamuses kill more people than lions or tigers? ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

But they can't help being drawn into a world filled with other wildlife: rival safari operators, discontented guides, grumpy hippopotamuses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, punts are the hippopotamuses of touch football. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

As with the tick-eating egrets that hop around in the vicinity of hippopotamuses, the moment you see a couple of dreadlocks at or near a food stall, bar or market, you know there will be white travellers, probably overlanders, nearby. ❋ Unknown (2010)