Talk:Hippopotamus pentlandi

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I would like to see more details. --96.46.196.158 (talk) 03:46, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

Is there a connection to report: "A cave near Palermo, Sicily, was filled with many tons of remains, including the fossilized bones of deer, oxen, elephants, and hippopotamuses of various ages—even a fetus. In fact, 20 tons of fossils found their way onto the market in the first six months after the site was discovered!"

"It was the smallest of the dwarf hippos known from the Mediterranean of the Pleistocene, weighing in at 320 kg." --> but in Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus is said that this one "is the smallest hippopotamus of all known insular hippopotamuses.", also from Pleistocene, also from the Mediterranean. Manuel Anastácio (talk) 18:20, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Misinformation
I corrected a substantial miss-statement about this hippo. Ref #2 states that H. pentlandi was the _largest_ Mediterranean island hippo, not the smallest. The Cypriot hippo was the smallest. The Sicilian hippo (and one of the Sicilian elephants) are, furthermore, stated in Ref #2 to be "at most 20% smaller than the mainland forms". H. antiquus (the mainland European hippo) was larger than H. amphibius, which bottoms out at 655 kg. 80% of 655 is 524 kg, substantially larger than 320 kg. I don't know where this 320 kg figure comes from (it has no citation) but it likely refers to the H. melitensis, or even the Cypriot hippo. 2601:441:4480:53B0:1143:C6D6:7EAD:CB30 (talk) 01:04, 11 October 2018 (UTC)