Their story, personality and the details worth observing in person.
Meet Mina
Mina is an invented editorial name for this provisional profile. In the sample story, the animal curiously explores keeper-provided enrichment and often chooses the same quiet spot to rest. This individual profile does not describe a real specimen and will be replaced by Bioparco.
An individual, not just a species
The identity card of Mina
- Sex
- non specificato
- Origin
- The individual name, sex and story are invented provisional editorial content; scientific information refers to the species.
Verifiable facts and scientific language
Species profile
Pygmy hippopotamus
Choeropsis liberiensis
The pygmy hippopotamus is smaller, more solitary and more terrestrial than the common hippopotamus.
- Class
- Mammalia
- Diet
- Herbivore
- IUCN status
- EN Endangered Endangered (EN) It faces a very high risk of extinction in the wild. IUCN Red List classification
- Natural habitat
- Rainforests and shaded streams.
- Distribution
- West Africa, especially Liberia and neighbouring countries.
- Feeding
- Leaves, ferns, fruit and other vegetation.
- Characteristics
- Smaller, more solitary and more terrestrial than the common hippopotamus.
One fact to take home
Observe, connect, remember
It follows regular paths through dense vegetation and rests in water.