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The heaviest land mammal after the elephants, the Common Hippopotamus feeds by plucking grass with its wide muscular lips. Hippos have naked, sensitive skin that loses water rapidly and must be protected from sun; hippos secrete through pores in the skin a viscous fluid that seems to serve as an antibiotic and sunblock rolled into one. |
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