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11 Aug 2016, 3:04 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
The name hippopotamus is Greek for "river horse". But they are more related to whales and dolphins than horses.


Their kinship to cetaceans is basically unproven conjecture.

But hippos are proven to be more akin to pigs than to horses.



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12 Aug 2016, 9:32 pm

A cockatoo does not have two cocks


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