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Hippopotamus: Malagasy Hippopotamus
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The fossil record of the Malagasy Hippopotamus is extensive. At least seven hippopotamus bones show unequivocal signs of butchery, suggesting that the hippopotami survived until humans arrived on Madagascar. The evidence of humans butchering the hippos ... suggests their extinction may have been, in part, due to humans. Despite the discovery of many fossils, the hippos of Madagascar are not very well studied, perhaps because researchers are interested in some of the more exotic megafauna of Madagascar, such as the Giant Lemur and the Elephant Bird.[9]
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Although it is thought that the pygmy hippopotamus went extinct 1,000 years ago in Madagascar, in one of the more remote parts of the country, the kilopilopitsofy ("floppy ears") was reportedly seen near Belo-sur-Mer as recently as 1976. The descriptions of the kilopilopitsofy sound remarkably like the pygmy hippo. So the Malagasy word for hippo, well pygmy hippo, would be kilopilopitsofy.
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Like the modern pygmy hippopotamus, the Malagasy Pygmy Hippo has eyes on the side of its head rather than high orbits and similar teeth to the pygmy hippopotamus. The Malagasy Pygmy Hippo is similarly less aquatic, with many of its fossils found in the forested highlands of Madagascar.[9]
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