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Hippopotamus

Wildest dreams: Meet the Karoo farmer who's bringing back the wilderness and resurrecting ‘dead’ towns

South Africa

Wildest dreams: Meet the Karoo farmer who's bringing back the wilderness and resurrecting ‘dead’ towns

By Angus Begg

On donkeys, hippopotamus, octopuses, parenting and love

Magazine

On donkeys, hippopotamus, octopuses, parenting and love

By Neroli Price

The strange tale of Pablo Escobar and his roaming river monsters – hippopotami

World

The strange tale of Pablo Escobar and his roaming river monsters – hippopotami

By Don Pinnock