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Many animals have evolved very entertaining – if not impolite – strategies for evolutionary success.
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The hippopotamus is among the world’s largest creatures on land, only elephants and some species of rhino are larger. Hippos are very aggressive – legendarily bad tempered and entirely unafraid of humans…
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