Hippos: Giants Who Love the Water: Educational Version

By Caitlind L. Alexander

Hippos are giant animals that live in Africa. How much do you know about these huge beasts? Do you know:

Are there such things as hippos that like to surf on the waves?
What does a hippo like to eat?
Can a hippo get sunburned?
Do hippos really sweat blood?

Find out what a hippo looks like, where it lives, what it eats, what eats it, how babies are born, and other fun facts.

All measurements in American and metric.

Educational Versions have CCSS activities.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: LearningIsland.com
• Release date: Sep 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301984978

Caitlind L. Alexander

Caitlind Alexander is the author of over 60 books for children, including the Jamie and Kendall Broderick Mystery series, the 14 Fun Facts and 101 Fun Facts series, the Wonderful World of Animals Series, and the Miss Jones series.She lives in California where she loves to visit historic places and learn about new things. She also loves to travel and has been all over the world.

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HIPPOS

GIANTS WHO LOVE THE WATER

By Caitlind L. Alexander

A LearningIsland.com

15 - Minute Book

Editor: Jennifer Robinson

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Hippos; Giants Who Love the Water / Caitlind L. Alexander

Summary: A brief look at the lives of hippos.

1. Hippopotamus. Juvenile Literature. 2. Wild Animals Juvenile Literature.

Created in USA

Words: 1515

Reading Level: 3.8

Age 7 and up.

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What is a Hippo?

What animal is as big as a boat, and loves to go swimming? It even loves to go surfing on the waves? It's the hippo, of course.

Hippos are huge animals. They can weigh almost 10,000 pounds (4536 kg)! That's five tons (4.5 tonnes)!

Hippos are mostly brownish in color, but some of them can look more gray. Some even look purplish.

Hippos have very thick skin with no hair. Their skin is about one-and-a-half inches (four cm) thick! That