求关于河马这种动物的英文介绍!!!急!!!!

河马 属于偶蹄目河马科

“河马”这个词来源于 希腊(英文名即 hippopotamos 、 hippo即"马", potamos即" 河 ",就是河马的意思),是非洲大型食草动物之一。

◆习性

河马是群居动物,每群大约有40只。寿命为40-50年。雌性河马在5-6岁时发情交配,妊娠期8月。

◆主要特征

体长3.5米(11英尺),肩高1.5米(5英尺) ,体重1500千克到3200千克(3,300到7,000磅)。几乎与白犀差不多大,有些专家甚至断言河马是仅次于大象最大的陆地动物。雄性河马到成年时还会长,但雌性河马到25岁时便停止成长。雌性比雄性小,体重一般不会超过1500公斤。最大的雄性河马的体重可达3000千克。但有些河马标本还活着的3000公斤的河马还大,最大的可达5000千克。虽然河马看起来高大笨重,它们比最快的短跑运动员跑得还快,时速达30千米/时(18英里/时)到40千米/时(25英里/时),最快的可达48千米/时(30英里/时),但河马的耐力并不好。

河马河马的眼睛、耳朵、和鼻孔都在河马的头顶。这使它们可以花费大多数时间在水中乘凉、防晒。当河马被晒得时间太长时,它们的身体会流出一种液体,很像汗和血,但这液体既不是汗也不是血。

英译:

Hippo is Artiodactyla Hippopotamidae

"Hippo" The word comes from the Greek (English name that hippopotamos, hippo or "horse", potamos that the "river" is the meaning of Hippo), one of large herbivores in Africa.

◆ habits

Hippos are social animals, each group of about 40. Life of 40-50 years. 5-6 years old female hippo mating, pregnancy in August.

◆ Main Features

Body length of 3.5 meters (11 feet) tall at the shoulder of 1.5 meters (5 feet) and weighing 1500 kg to 3200 kg (3,300 to 7,000 pounds). Almost as big as the white rhino, and some experts even assert that hippos are the largest land animal after the elephant. To the adult male hippo Shihai president, but the female hippopotamus to 25 years of age will stop growing. Females than males is small, generally not more than 1500 kg weight. The largest male hippo can weigh 3,000 kg. But some specimens alive Hippo Hippo 3000 kg bigger, the largest up to 5,000 kg. Although the hippopotamus looks tall and bulky, they are the fastest sprinters than run faster, speed of 30 km / h (18 miles / hour) to 40 km / h (25 miles / hour), the fastest up 48 km / h (30 miles / hour), but endurance is not good hippo.

Hippopotamus hippopotamus's eyes, ears, and nostrils are hippo's head. This allows them to spend most of the time in the water cool and sun. Hippo is too long when the sun, their bodies will be out of a liquid, much like the sweat and blood, but it is neither liquid nor sweat blood.