Oh, hey, it's the fish soup that you spilled all over the kitchen, which actually did happen to me, Hallie Ward.

And this is Ologies. It's a podcast where we explore an Ology a week. So you are tuning into a chat about hippos. It will leave you changed. It changed me.

We got a true hippopotamologist, a professor of biology at San Diego State University, whose research at Vassar and UC Davis

focused on vulnerable wildlife populations and conservation and, of course, hippos. So they know

way more about hippos than most people ever will on the planet. And they're in a very elite club

of hippopotamologists. And I asked her all of my very not smart questions

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living us a review, which helps convince me that I'm not broadcasting to an assortment of dolls

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even if I were a many-legged insect, I still wouldn't have enough appendages to count all the

times I've thrown A. Did you know this bizarre and uniquely entertaining fact about X, Y, or Z at an unsuspecting friend since I started listening to this podcast?

Three cheers to you, weird podcast, dad.

Chris F and all my stuffed animals listening out there.

Thank you for letting me father you.

Okay, hippos, hippos.

You might know, you probably know know that hippopotamus in Latin,

it means river horse. If you didn't know that, I'm going to give you a second. It's hippo means horse.

Potomis means of the river. Hippopotamus, river horse, these beasts. They are artidactals,

meaning that they have an even number of toes,

like a bison or a deer and a giraffe. Those are all in artidactals. And after elephants and rhinos,

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