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World Hippo Day on February 15 celebrates the extraordinary hippo and encourages action to prevent its extinction. Did you know that before 1909, scientists grouped hippos with pigs? Despite their physical resemblance to pigs or wild boars, hippos are closely related to whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Hippos are semi-aquatic mammals native to sub-Saharan Africa. They are herbivores and can weigh up to 2,000 kilograms, making them the third largest continental mammal after elephants and rhinos. Hippos are mainly found in rivers, lakes and mangrove swamps.

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Hippos are thought to have originated from a group of semi-aquatic animals called Whippomorpha. This group later split into two branches about 54 million years ago. The first branch, including whales and dolphins, evolved into complete aquatic cetaceans. The second branch became anthrax, a close relative of the common hippopotamus.

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During the Pliocene (more than two million years ago), all branches of the Anthraxidae became extinct, except those that evolved into the Hippoidae. This group of hippo ancestors migrated to Africa about 35 million years ago and ruled the continent as one of the first large mammals. Between 16 and 8 million years ago, the oldest known hippopotamus, the Kenipoma, lived on the African continent. But the group that later evolved into the modern hippopotamus was the ancient hippopotamus, which lived in Africa and the Middle East between 75 and 18 million years ago.

Hippo ancestors existed in Europe and the British Isles before the last ice age, including the European hippopotamus – the ancient hippopotamus – the great hippo and the black hippo. But these hippo species went extinct, and the exact cause remains unknown, although scientists speculate that it may have been to humans.

The ancestors of European hippos migrated to many Mediterranean islands during the Pleistocene, evolved, and later became extinct. These hippo species include the Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus, Hippopotamus pentlandi, Hippopotamus melitensis and Hippopotamus creutzburgi. Between 50,000 and 16,000 years ago, all hippos in the supercontinent Eurasia became extinct.

In North America, there was anthrax in the early Oligocene (more than 23 million years ago), but no evidence of hippos has ever been found on the continent. Several attempts have been made to introduce the species into the United States, but have never been successful. It wasn’t until the late 1980s when Pablo Escobar illegally imported four hippos into Colombia. Since then, the hippo population has grown to around 100.

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Laid stars Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet reveal the worst gifts their romantic partners gave them | Exclusive

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Laid stars Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet reveal the worst gifts their romantic partners gave them | Exclusive

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Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet talk about their new series Laid, and some of the horrors of dating as millennials.
Imagine a scenario where anyone and everyone you have ever been intimate with begins to die one by one. Is it a curse? If yes, then who is cursed? These are questions that Stephanie Hsu‘s Ruby battles with in the new zany comedy, Laid. Ahead of the show’s release, Stephanie and co-star Zosia Mamet spoke exclusively with HT about their roles, the show’s unique premise, and the horrors of dating as millennials. (Also read: Dune: Prophecy star Emily Watson on working with Tabu: ‘She is a true treasure’)

Stephanie Hsu on her character’s flawed morality

Laid, created by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna, is the story of Ruby (Stephanie Hsu), who discovers that all her sexual partners are dying one by one, and she must warn them. Helping her in this unique quest is her best friend AJ (Zosia). The fun thing about Laid is that the protagonists are not the usual likeable characters. “She is totally an anti-hero of our story. I really love that,” says Stephanie, referring to Ruby’s moral greyness. “I am not a perfect person and I love playing flawed characters. But it was difficult. The creators told me that she is a total narcissist. But narcissists don’t think they are one, so I had to figure out a way to love her. For me, playing Ruby was about getting into her psychology and finding the innocent part of her – which is that she just wants love,” the actor adds.

While sitcoms usually add the best friend as the voice of reason trope, Laid diverges from that, with AJ even zanier and more morally ambiguous than Ruby. Talking about playing such a colourful character, Zosia Mamet says, “When you play not-so-likable or zany characters, people don’t believe they are that way. I don’t think AJ wakes up every morning and thinks, ‘I am absolutely crazy’. It’s about trusting the writing and finding an organic way into these characters to make them seem grounded, real, and relatable.”

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Stephanie, Zosia reveal the worst gifts they received from partners

In Laid, Ruby gives the gift of death to the men she is with, even if that is inadvertent. Ask the women about the worst ‘gift’ a partner has ever given them, and the discussions veer into the unusual horrors of modern-day dating. “I got a vintage wooden duck decoy from someone. It was broken, and I thought, ‘What does this say about our relationship?’. They didn’t know me well enough to know if I’d want this but also that they gave me something old and ailing,” Zosia says with a laugh.

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