Hippopotamusses

Of these caves the work before us contains several remarkable details, particularly of one at Kirkdale in Yorkshire, where the bones of hyænas, tigers, bears, wolves, foxes, weasels, elephants, rhinocerosses, hippopotamusses, horses, oxen, deer, hares, rabbits, rats, mice, ravens, pigeons, and other birds were found, indiscriminately dispersed in a sediment of loam, all bearing the trace of having been gnawed, with marks, corresponding to those of hyænas’ teeth, those parts of bones only being left, which hyænas are observed to spare, and the very excrement of these ferocious animals being detected among other remains, dispersed in the mud.

When the moth came out of the cocoon, the children began to talk of things that changed into something else. “Caterpillars change into moths,” was followed by “puppies change into dogs, and kittens change into cats, and baby hippopotamusses change into big hippopotamusses.”

Though small in number, hippopotamusses at Lochinvar consume a large amount of grass and locally, disruption of the wet floodplain soil may be severe.