Talk:Hippopotamus gorgops

Location?
It would be nice to know where this guy was found. I heard somewhere that they found giant hippos in Europe--would that be this species? 71.217.114.221 22:09, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It originated in Africa, and is one of several fossil hippos from Europe.--Mr Fink 00:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Size
in List of largest mammals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_mammals is saying "The largest species in terms of weight is the hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), native to the rivers of sub-Saharan Africa. They can attain a size of 4,500 kg (9,900 lb), 4.8 m (16 ft) long and 1.66 m (5.4 ft) tall.[3] Prehistoric hippos such as H. gorgops and H. antiquus rivaled or exceeded the modern species as the largest members of the family and order to ever exist." and in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus_gorgops is saying "With a length of 4.3 metres (14 ft) and a shoulder height of 2.1 metres (6.9 ft) and with a weight of 3,900 kilograms (8,600 lb) H. gorgops was much larger than its living relative, H. amphibius." This doesn't make sense.

RoquePedro 29 January 2018


 * Reliable sources refer to H. gorgops as much larger than H. amphibius. The measurements in the article are supported by the source (Palmer 1999) added by User:Anaxial back in 2009. The largest specimens of H. amphibius may be much larger than the average for the species but the only sensible way to compare size is through averages and on the basis of published sources the average gorgops was much larger then the average amphibius, so there's no contradiction. Mikenorton (talk) 12:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)


 * That could be true, but with my hippo studies we can say that many recorded weights of males H. amphibius are individuals still growing, we know that male hippos will grow their entire lifes, and they can live over 50 years, so a 20 years individual with 1500kg could be twice as heavy when it gets older if not more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoquePedro (talk • contribs) 21:22, 14 April 2018 (UTC)