Some cool extinct animals images:
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Image by lanier67
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
- Zahi Hawass
Hippopotamuses, amongst other animals, inhabit the Hippopotamus House. They used to be called "Nilpferd" (Nile horse) in German, but they are now extinct along the River Nile. Hippos have the habit of marking their territory with their excrement in any clear water. And so they mostly lie in rather murky water in the daytime. As well as the breeding pair Mike and Rosi there is also Hannibal, the smaller pigmy hippopotamus. Together with these, we also have a Malayan tapir and a group of babirusas, which belong to the pig family. The babirusas from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi regularly have young ones, something which only succeeds at very few zoos.
Wilhelma, Stuttgart
American Lion Skull
Image by Travis S.
Lions used to be one of the widest-spread animals around the world. They used to live in the New World until they went extinct with most of the rest of the megafauna.
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