Dominant Hippo bulls control a stretch of water that they will vigorously defend against all-comers. They have excellent senses

---

Dominant Hippo bulls control a stretch of water that they will vigorously defend against all-comers. They have excellent senses of sight, hearing and scent.

---

Size: 6200px × 4133px
Location: Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: adaptation, africa, aggressive, alert, amphibious, aquatic, artiodactyl, basking, bull, canines, communication, daytime, declining, dentition, endemic, environment, evolution, family, fighting, glands, grazer, great, habitat, hairless, hippo, hippopotamus, hippotamidae, incisors, mammal, man, melanin, national, night-time, numbers, oxpeckers, park, pink, placental, protection, river, ruaha, safari, scars, secretion, sensitive, skin, social, solitary, sunburn, sweat, tanzania, territorial, thermoregulation, threat, vegetarian, vertebrate, vocal, whippomorphia, wildlife