hippos

After Pena was partially paralysed by a stroke seven years ago, horses helped her to recover as she experimented with hippotherapy, deriving from the Greek word "hippos," meaning horse.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

A similar feature is seen in hippos, so some workers think that peccaries and hippos are each other's closest relatives (which, if correct, would mean either that peccaries are whippomorphs, or that Whippomorpha is not monophyletic*).

More on what I saw at the zoo Darren Naish 2006

A similar feature is seen in hippos, so some workers think that peccaries and hippos are each other's closest relatives (which, if correct, would mean either that peccaries are whippomorphs, or that Whippomorpha is not monophyletic*).

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

His election victory shattered myths about America and caused some discomfort among Africa's gang of "hippos" - the nasty, ornery and unrepentant hard-knocks.

George Ayittey: Obama's Victory Shames Africa 2009

Sobek was seen as a powerful protector not only for tombs from raiders, but also the deceased in the next life, just as the crocodile seemed to protect their fields...the crocodiles swept throughout the fields during the flood did not eat the crops, rather instead kept grass-eaters at bay, such as hippos and livestock.

Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011

Sobek was seen as a powerful protector not only for tombs from raiders, but also the deceased in the next life, just as the crocodile seemed to protect their fields...the crocodiles swept throughout the fields during the flood did not eat the crops, rather instead kept grass-eaters at bay, such as hippos and livestock.

Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part III Richard Bangs 2011

Trillions of dollars would have to be spent constructing thousands of dams on every river basins in the world, and many trillions more integrating them into urban stormwater management systems; wetland restoration projects; concretized rivers and irrigation channels; fortified lagoons and estuaries; abandoned tunnels; flood control structures; and every faucets, sprinklers, buckets and rolling 'hippos' throughout the world.

Hydrology vs. the Apocalypse 2007

Trillions of dollars would have to be spent constructing thousands of dams on every river basins in the world, and many trillions more integrating them into urban stormwater management systems; wetland restoration projects; concretized rivers and irrigation channels; fortified lagoons and estuaries; abandoned tunnels; flood control structures; and every faucets, sprinklers, buckets and rolling 'hippos' throughout the world.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

It is a picture of a lone woman standing between two armoured vehicles, the notorious 'hippos', as they rolled into Soweto.

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pilger: Honouring the 'unbreakable promise' 2008

(Just think of the Hippopotamus, the horse or "hippos" that lives in the rivers.)

Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1913