Do hippos really live in water?

Answer 1

Hippos spend most of the daylight hours in water deep enough to cover all of their body except enough of their faces so they can breath.

At night, they go out and graze and each adult eats about 300 pounds of grass.

Answer 2

exactly --they love water , recently after a lot of time a hippo was born in some indian zoo and the officials had to wait for more than 15 days to find its sex as it was not comming out of water at all!!!!!

Answer 3

hippos spend a great deal of time in the water and are amazingly graceful while submerged. adult hippos have no natural predators other than humans, baby hippos have to be more careful. hippos are very dangerous, more so than lions or crocs, if you invade on them.

Answer 4

Sort of... They spend much of their time in the water, but they browse on grass much of the night.
You'll often see wild hippos either in, or on the banks of the river during the day.

Answer 5

They spend the days in the water, but come out at night to forage on the grassland when most of the large preditors are sleeping.

Answer 6

They spend most of their time in the water. However they do come onto the land at times as well. They sleep both on land and in the water.

Answer 7

They spend much of the time in the water, yes. However they are considered land mammals, unlike for example whales, dolphins and seals.

Answer 8

Yes, they come out at night to eat grass though. They are the most dangerous animal in Africa too, killing more people than lions or elephants!

Answer 9

yes they spend much of their time in water. they tend to be agressive towards food & they tend to go on land every now and then but mostly in water.

Answer 10

yes, but they come out for air