To sign up for Hippo, potential customers can text "Hello" to Hippo (44776) on their phone or visit the company's website to receive an individual, digital Hippo card.
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"Hippo lakes have different chemistry and biology than no-hippo lakes," Shurin said about the research published in January.
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Baby hippo Fiona is our queen, and nothing will change that — but we just found our itty-bitty hippo king.
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The famous baby hippo gained notoriety as soon as she was born, being the smallest hippo ever to survive a premature birth.
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Hippo also worked with Comcast's Xfinity to market its insurance to Xfinity customers, giving Hippo a new avenue to sign up customers.
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The house hippo was popular because it's a cute little hippo and kind of made people think about whether it was actually real or not.
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The cafe is the closest eatery to the hippo tank, and therefore the closest to Fiona, the 10-month-old hippo who bounces around inside it.
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A hippo has a symbiotic relationship with the bird that cleans its teeth, but that doesn't mean the hippo always acts in the best interests of the bird.
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The park announced the happy news that mama hippo, Tuma, gave birth to a Nile hippopotamus on Saturday, the first hippo born at the Florida park in 13 years!
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Single human legs of different skin shades, a miniature hippo (aka a House Hippo — that's a nod to you, Canada), a sponge, and a mooncake are also among the new batch.
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Fiona the Baby Hippo Gets Her First Taste of Snow After a big year of firsts, social media darling Fiona the baby hippo started off 2018 by tasting a new treat.
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The relationship between the two companies began as Hippo was searching for ways to make insurance "proactive instead of reactive" Daniel Blanaru, VP of growth initiatives at Hippo, told Business Insider.
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We eagerly await more updates from this sweet hippo family.
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Throughout her journey, this little hippo amassed a huge following.
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Hippo dung sucks oxygen from riverside marshes, dooming some fish.
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Queen of the internet, Fiona the Hippo, just turned two.
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Perhaps the lion thought the hippo was injured or sleeping.
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Small Hippo, Big Pool: The title of Fiona's upcoming biopic.
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A sculpture of a hippo is tucked into the stairwell.
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This element of randomness means that even if, say, an elephant was favored to win 80-20 in a match against a hippo, the hippo could still score an upset with a lucky roll.
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Starting out at 29 pounds when they're typically 50 to 100 pounds, it is a big deal that she's been gaining and increasing and becoming a regular hippo and growing as other hippo calves do.
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Scientists at the zoo milked a hippo for the first time — "we had no idea what was in hippo milk before now," Ms. Gorsuch said — so that they could recreate the formula for Fiona's bottles.
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Despite the house hippo PSA telling me not to, I believed what I saw in the commercials so much that I was convinced my hairless guinea pig was actually a domestic hippo until he died.
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Could a HBO (Hippo Box Office, ahem) series be far behind?
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You wrote something for me and you're calling me a hippo.
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Let this newborn pygmy hippo beam some sunshine into your life.
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Have you ever seen anything cuter than a baby pygmy hippo?
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We have a queen and her name is Fiona the Hippo.
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Hippo spanking at Los Angeles Zoo prompts police investigation, report says.
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That picture of a baby hippo was simply all I needed.
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The baby hippo was a memorable part of their special day.
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Her costar Loretta Devine voices the character of Hallie the hippo.
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Could you ever be this bold to slap a #hippo butt?
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While Fox treats him well, Hippo sits on him without noticing.
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She is the smallest hippo to survive, according to the zoo.
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It'd be tough to mistake a hippo for a sensitive type.
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Comcast Ventures' roots in media helped Hippo with marketing and media expertise that it couldn't get from other VCs and lowered its cost to acquire new customers, said Andrea Collins, head of brand marketing for Hippo.
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What do you get when you mix a hippo and a rabbit?
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That's about the weight of two SUVs, or a large male hippo.
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Baby hippo Fiona has come so far since her dramatic premature birth.
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In fact, the formerly small hippo recently hit the 1,000-lb. mark.
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Jeroen Verberg, co-founder and CEO at Hippo certainly sees the potential.
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Hippo Campus's debut album, Landmark, is out now on Grand Jury Music.
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Felix needs to get the government on board – or he's hippo chow.
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That's the price for a single room at Happy Hippo in Durban.
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In terms of size, she ranks halfway between hippo and the Hindenburg.
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Hippo, the latest of these, is going after a slightly different market.
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But what were you thinking about the present moment and that hippo?
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Meet Fiona, a baby hippo — and social media star — at Cincinnati Zoo.
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Each King Hippo show will feature a D.J. and an after party.
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Alibaba launched grocery store Fresh Hippo in 2016, also known as Hema.
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In Zimbabwe, yet another ranger drowned when a hippo attacked his canoe.
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Fingers crossed that Hippo will be drumming up some more tracks soon.
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After the Hippo, Monster and Deer ended up coming in the bottom, the Hippo — who sang "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown — ended up going home and being identified as Antonio Brown, a wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Hippo also has a strong North American presence with an office in Boston.
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But before we talk about Fiona's show, let's talk about the hippo herself.
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It falls short: it looks like a Hungry Hungry Hippo when it's open.
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Hippo populations dropped by 12.5 percent per year during the same time period.
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Hippo-Grun: This set includes two uninsuluble brand of hair-tearing, unworn products.
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We couldn't get enough of Fiona in 33, but new year, new hippo!
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A baby hippo photobombed a couple who got engaged at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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HIPPO laws prohibit her therapist from disclosing what she said in their session.
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Others applauded the self-determination exhibited by both the hippo and the armadillo.
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JOHN Yes, that's it, with the hippo, the poodle and the rabbit masks.
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I mean, have you ever tried to tag a hippo with a tracker?
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"Here comes Jes the Hippo!" someone sang loudly as I pulled open Mrs.
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We've seen companies like Lemonade, Hippo and Rhino get in on that opportunity.
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At that particular time, the house hippo, for example, was about media literacy.
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The hippo showed his appreciation by trampling the guy: A 69-year-old tourist from Howick, near Durban, was attacked in the KNP [Kruger National Park] by an injured hippo when he got out of his car to inspect its wounds.
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Tony is Funani's 12th healthy calf, making this hippo mom an expert baby raiser.
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This month, Fiona the baby hippo approved of her first proposal, reports The Telegraph.
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A female Nile hippo, Fiona will likely grow to be upwards of 2,500 lbs.!
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"While Fighting The Odds, Fiona The Hippo Became A Social Media Star," reported NPR.
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"Typically, full-term hippo newborns are big animals," Maynard, the zoo director, tells me.
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Answer: Her popular account had liked a completely gray square posted by Viral Hippo.
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With most of those lawsuits now settled, Hippo is bringing its service to market.
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Hippo gives participating pharmacies a guaranteed rate for drugs in exchange for lower prices.
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How we would look: like a hippo who hasn't learned how to walk yet.
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Fiona the baby hippo has been chowing down on the sweet stuff all week.
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Look at her marching around, a cuddly little pygmy hippo with places to go!
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And now, the Cincinnati Zoo's beloved Fiona the Hippo has another adorable children's book.
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Someone, or some hippo, is trying to slide into Fiona the baby hippo's DMs.
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Every video you make on Hippo can be exported to YouTube, Vimeo, and GDrive.
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Furthermore, Hippo uses satellite imagery of an applicant's property to develop more accurate profiles.
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"We made polo shirts with a hippo embroidered on them, like Lacoste," he said.
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They found that hippo attacks had the highest mortality rate of any animal examined.
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Pretty amazing for a kid who started off smaller than any other surviving zoo hippo.
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Besides, look at everything that nearly six-figure sum buys you: Life-like hippo skin!
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Fiona the Hippo slowly bounds around her mother, her quarter-ton frame made weightless underwater.
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It also protects the skin from becoming waterlogged when a hippo is in the water.
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For instance, MortgageHippo and Hippo Insurance were both funded in the past couple of years.
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But he's the number one hippo in our hearts (well, maybe number two after Fiona).
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It's the #FirstDayofFall and the first day ever for this newborn hippo—Funani's 22017th calf!
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Fiona the hippo has had a banner year already, but she just keeps outshining herself.
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Three cute characters — a tiger, a hippo, and a monkey — need help getting dressed up.
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Insurtech unicorn Hippo said on Thursday that it has bought preventative home maintenance company Sheltr.
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Its new division, Forecast Labs, is helping about a dozen startups, including Hippo and Acorns.
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When we reintroduced her to her parents, she knew how to be a hippo immediately.
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With makeshift hippo mouths made out of plastic baskets and broomstick handles, the game began.
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Over that 10 year period, there weretwo fatal and five nonfatal hippo attacks on tourists.
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Yet, herein lies the problem: There's no really effective way to control a rogue hippo population.
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The official party was last weekend, but Fiona obviously still got another hippo-friendly birthday cake.
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Now my only question for Bartleby is, when the HIPPO is VUCA are we all FUBAR?
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"We Need To Talk About Sassy Fiona The Hippo Queen," said Sam Stryker here at BuzzFeed.
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In late February, an Instagram account called Viral Hippo posted a photo of a black square.
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Hippo populations are threatened by poaching, disease, loss of habitat, deforestation, and pollution, according to experts.
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She beat the odds and grew into the strong, sweet and silly hippo we know today.
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Hippo has raised $109 million to date, including a $25 million Series B earlier this year.
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For most of her life she was accompanied by Bert, another hippo, who died in 2008.
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A rediscovered David Hockney and a welded hippo are among some 2,000 works coming to auction.
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The hippo briefly tried to bite the truck, then walked away as if nothing ever happened.
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Off to one side is a sculpture of a hippo, fashioned from a single Balinese tree.
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"Elephant bones and hippo ribs appear to have the same kind of breakage," Dr. Johanson said.
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As of Wednesday, though, she had reached healthy young hippo status, weighing in at 254 lbs.
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And when people come over I just go uh, that hippo, that's just before she dies.
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Student Opinion Have you heard about Fiona, the baby hippo born prematurely at the Cincinnati Zoo?
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Saint Augustine of Hippo, a particularly influential early Christian theologian, grappled with abortion and Mosaic Law.
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After a long stretch of reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear (cute!), Happy Hippo, Angry Duck (clever
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For example: I once met a hippo head-on at night in Queen Elizabeth Park, Uganda.
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Kentucky.com reports that in preparation for what's sure to be the baby animal party of the year, "hungry, hungry" fans of the world's most famous hippo will enjoy the opportunity to order the limited edition ice cream inspired by her life — Chunky Chunky Hippo — online beginning Jan.
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Fiona the Baby Hippo Unable to ignore the temptation of a crisp piece of lettuce, social media darling Fiona the baby hippo, now 1 year old, revealed that she is rooting for the Eagles, though she did flirt with the leaf over the by the Patriots box.
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REALTED: Premature Baby Hippo 'Fiona' Stands and Walks for First Time at Cincinnati Zoo Usually this is a job the hippo parents handle, but since Fiona was born premature, weighing only 29 pounds, and couldn't stand to nurse on her own, zoo caretakers had to step in.
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""I have never seen a hippo coming to the aid of another animal, it was simply astonishing.
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Fiona the hippo is now in her terrible twos, though she continues to be nothing but terrific.
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Fiona the hippo, a celebrity, will probably not be making an appearance at her first birthday party.
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What companies like GoodRX, Hippo and Blink do is bring those benefits to anyone who signs up.
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Once in the pharmacy a user just shows the pharmacist their Hippo card and can start saving.
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It's especially exciting news as she's the most premature hippo born in a zoo who has survived.
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And that obscurity around data leads to highest paid person's opinion (HiPPO) ruling the decision-making process.
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Trōv, Cover, Hippo and Swyfft all offer services to make insuring possessions or property faster and easier.
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While most of America was prepping for football, one little baby hippo was experiencing a life milestone.
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We first met Fiona, a baby hippo born at the Cincinnati Zoo, at the end of January.
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HiPPO, "highest paid person's opinion," a term coined by Avinash Kaushik, is the antithesis of data-drivenness.
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A press release from the zoo states that pygmy hippos are smaller than their Nile hippo relatives.
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Fiona the hippo, queen of the Cincinnati Zoo and our national daughter, has had a banner year.
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Service line coverage, building code coverage, water backup and equipment breakdown coverage are standard on Hippo policies.
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Its Facebook page was still active on Wednesday, with a post encouraging followers to adopt a hippo.
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A mother and a daughter won a costume contest in 1952 wearing these genuinely disturbing hippo costumes.
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Hippo, founded in 23.2, is valued at $214 billion and has raised $278 million dollars to date.
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In the video, a man scales a short barrier before giving a loud slap to one hippo.
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Videos of the baby hippo twirling around in the water are racking up millions of views online.
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SUNDAY STYLES An article last Sunday about Fiona the hippo misstated the weight of Bibi, Fiona's mother.
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That's about the weight of four pick-up trucks — heavier than any elephant or hippo alive today.
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Not even the hippo, one of the toughest animals on the planet, can withstand our global ecocide.
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Look at this thing, and the delighted hippo that's about to crush it all on her own.
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Its author, one Captain H. M. Raleigh, detailed how a framed print of the hippo in his drawing room had an effect so powerful on him and his family that they considered the hippo an oracle of sorts: a bright blue beast they consulted before making any major decisions.
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The world's most beloved hippo, Fiona, celebrated the holidays just like we do: by watching the scales closely.
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Fiona the hippo has been the queen of many realms: eating lettuce, being cute, taking showers, family reunions.
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The Met honors one of its icons, William the hippo, with a redisplay and dedicated series of events.
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The three were introduced in Hippo Cove's outdoor pool before the Zoo opened, supervised by their care team.
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Fiona the Nile hippo — who captured the hearts of Americans when she was born at just 226 lbs.
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Of course, the hippo calf's cake is made out of healthy fruit and veggies, not sugar and flour.
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Chelsea Clinton recently stopped by the famous facility to visit with its celebrity resident, Fiona the Baby Hippo.
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The zoo, home to social media superstar Fiona the baby hippo, recently welcomed an eastern black rhino calf.
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A tourist from Taiwan and a local fisherman were killed in two separate hippo attacks, authorities said Sunday.
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We spoke with Fiona's caretakers and our resident astrologer Annabel Gat to gain insight into this remarkable hippo.
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The Dallas Zoo debuted their adorable hippo on Saturday — as if you needed another reason to love Saturdays.
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That disconnect is one of the ways Hippo Insurance is aiming to disrupt the home insurance selling model.
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Their son enjoys the park's Hippo and Dinosaur Playgrounds, while their daughter bicycles with her father on weekends.
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With Cincinnati Zoo closed, Fiona the hippo is going online, joining other animals who are now streaming live.
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CreditCreditAndrew Spear for The New York Times CINCINNATI — Michelle Curley's husband does not like the baby-hippo tattoo.
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Top marketers at Toyota, Burger King, and Hippo reveal how they're changing their ad strategies to keep up.
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Zhu said Habitat has drawn comparisons to Alibaba's Hema stores in China, known as Fresh Hippo in English.
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The description on the Away Mode website and Amazon page don't promise results, but the developer is Hippo.
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When my boyfriend showed me a Facebook video of Fiona the Hippo, I wondered if that was cheating.
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Just take a look at this giant hippo singing Bobby's Brown's 1988 hit "My Prerogative": Welp, since you read the headline, you're probably trying to guess which of these three Jim Henson workshop rejects was a football player, so I'll just give it to you straight: Antonio Brown was the hippo.
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And as the leaves begin to fall in Cincinnati, Ohio, a new autumnal queen has emerged: Fiona the hippo.
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The Cincinnati Zoo, Fiona's home, recently shared that the 1-year-old hippo nows weighs an impressive 818 lbs.
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On a recent walk in her baby hippo-proofed area, the curious kid decide to step into the shower.
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Occasionally, a drugged hippo will become so scared it charges back into the water at the risk of drowning.
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"Slightly overweight at 64 pounds, she is a happy, roly-poly, marshmallow hippo dog," says rescue volunteer Lor Fogel.
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A hippo born May 28 and its mother, Gina, at the Guadalajara Zoo in Guadalajara, Mexico, on July 11.
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This is her 5-month-old Shar Pei, Finn, trying to Hungry, Hungry Hippo her way to a snack.
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Fiona the baby hippo is joining the countless daughters celebrating powerful females all around the world of all species.
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The report said the hippo did not have any visible injuries, but an encounter like that could be stressful.
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The judges thought the face under the hippo mask belonged to either Odell Beckham, Deion Sanders or Allen Iverson.
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Funani's #hippo calf is now 1 week old and we're still waiting to confirm whether it's female or male.
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There was the fluffy sheep with multiple personalities, the hippo with OCD and the sweet alligator suffering from paranoia.
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Another hippo at the Mesker Park Zoo in Indiana, Donna, was 62 when she was humanely euthanized in 2012.
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The little hippo happily chomped up all of her pumpkin pieces, while Mom and Dad gorged on whole gourds.
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" Walter Mondale "would make an excellent prime minister of Norway," and Wallace Shawn is "like a small, anxious hippo.
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Christie's hippo bath, made in 1969, was acquired by its East Coast owner at auction in 2006 for $169,2007.
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He also lives at the same zoo as Fiona the Hippo, who is the de facto queen of America.
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The object of the game is for each "hippo" to capture as many marbles as possible with its mouth.
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Together, they broke ground on an ill-fated company called Stoned Hippo, which was intended to sell vaporizers online.
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She loses Ziggy's class mascot, Harry the Hippo, and then forgets that Ziggy has a family tree project due.
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The little hippo played in the shower until she fell asleep, and took a nap with the water still running.
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From a natural history standpoint, an adult male hippo should be completely comfortable with a female baby joining the bloat.
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Boost Power Bot drove hundreds of likes to a stock image of a steaming manure pile posted to Viral Hippo.
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In January, a baby hippo named Fiona was born at the Cincinnati Zoo (the same place where Harambe died, RIP).
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For a hippo who was born six weeks premature, a little bit of holiday weight gain is a good thing.
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The lion trots off like it's no big deal, but the hippo shows that it's not to be messed with.
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Tony is the twelfth hippo born to his mother and father, Funani and Otis, according to the San Diego Zoo.
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Young Alfred has relationships with Progressive and Hippo, and users can check-out online direct from the Young Alfred website.
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Like his friend and rival Augustine of Hippo, he led a wayward youth and converted to Christianity in early adulthood.
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Nick Kelble proposed to Hayley Kelble (née Roll) at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio as Fiona the Hippo looked on.
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As it lumbered down the street, children dodged around it, shrieking; the locals joked about making the hippo a mascot.
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Here, a newborn hippo gasps its last breath while being crushed to death in the jaws of an aggressive male.
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Born in January, Fiona weighed only 29 pounds — low compared to the average hippo birth weight of 55-100 lbs.
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Moomins — those doughy, endearing hippo-ish creatures that oddly lack mouths — are innocent fantasy creatures who never face real problems.
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In the previous book, a solitary hippo politely refused to join other animals in various activities — dancing, shopping, drinking juice.
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Videos of the baby hippo twirling around in the water, Rubenesque and graceful, are racking up millions of views online.
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And I'm watching the hippo who got stabbed accidentally, and I'm like, fuck dude, that wasn't an act of evil.
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Who doesn't want to see a baby hippo play and swims all around with some twist and hops and splashes.
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In "Hooray for Fiona the Hippo, Our Bundle of Social-Media Joy," Rachel Syme writes: Fionamania has swept the country.
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Before all the recent hippo hoopla, Ms. Peevey, the former owner of a boutique advertising agency in El Cajon, Calif.
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Each illustration features animals with opposing traits — a hairy lion and a bald hippo, for instance — living together in harmony.
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Thanks to Dieting Hippo and the power of Doom II, bEatmstrJ's cursed DIY bathroom project will live on in digital memory.
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The scientists measured the events by hanging out downstream of the hippo pools and measuring the water, according to the paper.
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The game ends even though there are still pieces of hippo food remaining, and Rich Uncle Pennybags seems to have won.
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This differs from Lemonade, which is its own insurance carrier, but is similar to Hippo and many other new insurtech startups.
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The emoji animal kingdom is getting some new members, including a raccoon, hippo, kangaroo, badger, swan, peacock, parrot, lobster, and llama.
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Since we're living in an age with Fiona the Hippo, the bar for animals that get us excited is pretty high.
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So all this time we've been slathering snail goo all over our faces, but we ought to be applying hippo sweat?
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Another ranger, Hakizimana Sinamenye Chadrack, died in March after sustaining serious injuries from a hippo, the park said on its website.
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The Cincinnati Zoo welcomed a new baby hippo earlier this week, born six weeks early to 17-year-old mom, Bibi.
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If you've managed to dodge all the adorable news about Fiona the baby hippo, you are missing out on pure happiness.
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Hippo, which sells home insurance plans at lower premiums, officially launched in 2017 and has brought in $109 million to date.
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"As long as the foreigners keep coming, we will be alright," said Michelle Brooks, owner of Happy Hippo Backpackers in Durban.
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The beloved hippo squad was given raw pumpkin to chow down on in celebration of HallZOOween, the zoo's annual Halloween celebration.
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A man driving his truck across a bridge made the terrible mistake of trusting that a hippo was friendly toward humans.
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Almost immediately upon noticing the truck, the hippo charged the vehicle, leaving the front end of the truck with significant damage.
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"In less than three days, more than one hundred crocodiles manage to transform a dead hippo into fertilizer for the river."
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Little Hippo is considering adding an app-enabled Mella in the future so that parents can choose which version they'd like.
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We hope guests will see this adorable hippo calf and be inspired to take action to protect them in the wild.
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Three of those startups, Away, the investing app Acorns, and insurance company Hippo, have used Forecast Labs to run TV advertising.
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Will liked the concept, but asked to remove some iffy fill and to replace HIPPO, which was the only shortened entry.
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But the star of the show is undoubtedly the hippo-like beast herself, brought to life through innovative and painstaking CGI.
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Emily from Georgia was equally enamored: Now that I have seen Fionamania she is a playful hippo that loves to play.
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On another occasion, in daylight, I was subjected to an unprovoked charge from a hippo as I drove past its wallow.
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Such structures have enabled the emergence of startups like Ladder in life insurance, Hippo in home insurance, and Jetty in renters insurance.
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Staff had noticed on Thursday that the hippo was displaying unusual behavior -- spending most of the day under water in his enclosure.
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Fiona the Hippo Before Fiona could become a proxy for the life circumstances of beholders worldwide, she had to survive her own.
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"The hippo culling will be done once the hunting season opens in May," Tourism Permanent Secretary Howard Sikwela told Reuters by phone.
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The Masked Singer has already unmasked two other contestants: Tommy Chong ("the Pineapple") and Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown ("the Hippo").
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And as if that fact alone didn't warrant an article, another internet famous hippo just sent Fiona a pretty sweet birthday song.
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Their lifespans shortened, and they shrank hundreds of pounds, from the size of a pygmy hippo to that of a large dog.
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The hippo, a 3,500-pound mother named Betsy, was loaded into a van while under armed guard at the Prospect Park Zoo.
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A hippo crossed directly in front of our car on the way, and it's extremely rare to see them out of water.
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The female hippo, who lived at the Philippine zoo since it opened in 1959, was found dead in her enclosure on Friday.
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The government had therefore decided to proceed with the plan to control the hippo population in eastern Zambia, the tourism minister said.
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According to the two companies, Sheltr identified issues that could cause $10,000 or greater claims in 51% of Hippo&aposs client homes.
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"The world of insurance is of big numbers, which means it is averages," Assaf Wand, Hippo CEO and cofounder, told Business Insider.
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Fiona the hippo has come a long way from her six-weeks premature birth and previous need of round-the-clock care.
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You'll recall, Fiona was born 6 weeks premature and weighed a mere 29 pounds -- a record for any hippo born in captivity.
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Fiona's father, Henry, was inside, having suffered for months with infection and weight loss, an old man in hippo years at 36.
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Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer speaks to an overflow room of supporters at the Nacho Hippo in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Wednesday.
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The park shelters a large hippo herd, more than 520 bird species, a healthy lion population and critically-endangered Eastern Black rhinos.
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His company uniform, bright blue with a hippo logo, tells the local authorities that he is allowed to be on the road.
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If you haven't had enough of achingly cute hippo joy, please take a moment to appreciate the Cincinnati Zoo's Fiona highlights video.
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Whether frog or toad or hippo or human, you could only genuinely engage with others by first becoming fully and openly yourself.
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Toward the end of the episode, Celeste is with her two boys, and she finds that Harry the Hippo is missing a leg.
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Per Food and Wine, "hippo-friendly" means that it's made of fruit ice and covered in watermelon, honeydew, and Fiona's very first pineapple.
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Astronomer Paul Murdin was part of a team of 250 people documenting the eclipse's effects, and he had been put on hippo duty.
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British wildlife charity Born Free, which led the campaign against the cull in 2016, says Zambia's hippo population was far smaller than estimated.
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Blink and Hippo are among a slew of companies trying to provide a fix, including GoodRX, Amazon (through its PillPack acquisition) and RxSave.
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What's really remarkable about the film is how Jackson and his crew coax the audience into feeling real sympathy for Heidi the Hippo.
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This announcement follows months filled with health struggles for the large male hippo, who lost hundreds of pounds leading up to his death.
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Per SWNS, a male hippo calf weighing 30 kilograms (or about 66 pounds) can thank the Game of Thrones giant for his name.
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Felicis Ventures and Lennar Corporation have co-led the $70 million Series C funding round for Hippo, a tech-enabled home insurance marketplace.
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In the fifth century, Christian doctrines of hell became more streamlined, in part due to the monumental influence of St. Augustine of Hippo.
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Chang Ming Chuang, 65, was with a colleague taking pictures of the hippo on the shores of the lake when the animal attacked.
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The perfect baby hippo made a perfect appearance in an engagement photo earlier this month — perhaps the most wonderful photobomb of our time.
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Rosie, the hippo seen in the video, is the first such animal to be born at the Los Angeles Zoo in 26 years.
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UPDATE: Fuzzy Purple Hippo met with a therapist this morning to discuss whether or not she feels safe in her relationship with Hank.
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Fifth Wall was fortunate to make early investments in many of those transformative businesses, such as Blend, Hippo, Loggi, Lime, Opendoor and VTS.
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Laganja in particular, the transformation that she's had, it's not even like a chrysalis into a butterfly; it's like a beaver into a hippo.
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One of these seasonal arrivals, which also includes April's calf and Fiona the hippo, is slow to move, but is quickly skyrocketing in popularity.
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The paper describes how these hippo pools periodically "flush" into the rest of the river, causing lots of oxygen-free water to flow through.
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Rather, it's the story of a friendship between a South Korean girl and the title character, a 6-ton pig-elephant-manatee-hippo thing.
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Hippo Binti and Her Baby Winnie Winnie has a little growing to do to match mom, but right now she is her mini-me.
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There's no doubt that bad blood exists between Blink Health's co-founders, the brothers Geoffrey and Matthew Chaiken, and Hippo co-founder Eugene Kakaulin.
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So far this year, Hippo has expanded into 11 new states and says its sales have grown 30 percent month-over-month since January.
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On Thursday, Timothy, a hippo at the San Antonio Zoo, signed onto the park's Facebook account to send his dream girl a love note.
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"When she started interviewing again, people would ask her what job she was most proud of, and she would say Hippo Playground," Sachs says.
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Made with smoked meat, otwoya was a perfect way to use the remaining meat from the hippo George shot in a recent hunting trip.
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He put the remaining smoked hippo meat in the boiling water so that it would become moist, adding salt and eventually the simsim paste.
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The firm has invested in more than 25 startups, including Opendoor, scooter and bike startup Lime, homeowner insurance firm Hippo, and coworking startup Industrious.
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Now it hangs in my living room next to a Mary Weatherford painting and all this incredible art — and then there's my hippo painting.
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Read more: The best wildlife photos taken this year reveal a hippo murder, a hungry leopard seal, and a weevil ensnared by zombie fungus
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The publicity team's decision to share updates on the hippo from the beginning was unconventional; most zoos wait to share information on troubled animals.
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Two thinkers he respected deeply probably influenced him: St. Augustine of Hippo and Tolstoy, both of whom conceive of confession similarly in their autobiographies.
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In 2008, Hallmark came out with a hippo-shaped tree ornament that plays the earworm of a tune, written by the songwriter John Rox.
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Okja is his latest example of this approach — and this time, it comes with the addition of a giant, lovable pig-hippo-puppy hybrid.
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For a guy who dressed up as a hippo and sang "My Prerogative" in front of a bunch of people, we shouldn't be surprised.
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In our Current Events Conversation, we celebrate student writing about the issues of the day, whether politics, the #MeToo moment or Fiona the Hippo.
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This is a significant moment mostly because it is normal hippo behavior — and that is exactly what the zoo wants to see from Team Fiona.
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Botswana's Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism advised people not to touch the dead hippos and to report any sightings of hippo carcasses.
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The wildlife institution did it with Fiona the Hippo, and now this new bouncing baby boy is reaping the benefits of Internet adoration too. Behold!
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The celebrity hippo and lettuce queen made her official Super Bowl selection during the latest episode of The Fiona Show on Facebook Watch on Thursday.
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Players will have dozens of methods for approaching the mission, including feeding each of the men to the same rather hungry hippo, Liebold tells me.
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After examining Henry Tuesday morning and determining that the hippo would not recover from his infection, zoo vets made the painful decision to euthanize Henry.
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Newborn #hippos can hold their breath for 13 sec, so this little hippo spends a lot of time in the shallow end of the pool.
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Hippos don't have their own version of the infamous PSL (yet), but baby hippo Fiona has found the next best thing: just plain ol' pumpkin.
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Hippo is part of the booming insurtech crowd, but now it&aposs adding a human touch to nip maintenance problems for homeowners in the bud.
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The hippo does not react to the slap in the video, but another one of the animals in the enclosure seems startled by the sound.
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Mr. Yelton, who fields all requests for Fiona collaborations, told me that he has had to turn down hundreds of offers for hippo-branded ideas.
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The Thursday night lineup begins at 8:15 and includes Luke Combs, Hippo Campus, Mondo Cozmo, Goldfish, the Orwells, Welles, Innanet James, Haywyre and Eden.
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The tourism ministry also has failed to provide data demonstrating that previous culls have helped reduce hippo populations in the area, Born Free activists said.
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In the ensuing years, as Augustine of Hippo, known as Saint Augustine, began pronouncing the new ideologies and moralities that would rule the Roman Empire.
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Moneybagg isn't the most distinctive rapper stylistically, but he's a solid lyricist—"pockets getting fat / I'm talking Hungry Hungry Hippo"—and supremely comfortable on every track.
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Just like little humans, Fiona the (not quite so) baby hippo has hit a growth spurt, healthily progressing to adulthood at what seems like warp speed.
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Millions of pounds of hippo feces are deposited into Africa's rivers every year, and without this massive payload, they would be starved of life-sustaining nutrients.
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Y Combinator -backed Goodcover is launching today to take on the likes of big insurance, as well as insurance startups like Lemonade, Jetty, Hippo and Zebra.
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In no time at all the nonagenarian was riding waves, in a Beyoncé music video, on Dancing with the Stars and running away from a hippo.
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Its Live stream features two giant Potato Heads and one Mr. Monopoly playing a silent game of Hungry Hungry Hippo, and it is very, very creepy.
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But the Hippo Roller, a water collection drum designed to roll along rough terrain, is allowing those who collect water to do so safely and effectively.
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Hippo Video Pro Plan: Lifetime Subscription — $229.99 See Details One of the most stressful things about setting up a business is putting together an actual plan.
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Located in Mississippi's capital city, the zoo was founded in 1919 and is home to endangered species, such as the pygmy hippo, Sumatran tiger, and chimpanzee.
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Root's latest round, in addition to home insurtech Hippo raising $300 million in July, indicates that we will likely see this trend continue in this quarter.
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Hippo doesn&apost disclose its loss ratios, or incurred losses as a percentage of insurance premiums, though it has said they are below the industry average.
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The Swiss photographer Adrian Hirschi said he watched as the male hippo grabbed the infant from beside its mother in the shallows of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe.
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Hayley and Nick Kelble's engagement photos went viral in 2017 when their romantic moment was photobombed by a gleeful hippo named Fiona at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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Like the new baby at Disney's Animal Kingdom, Fiona was a history-making addition as the first hippo born at the Cincinnati Zoo in 75 years.
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Ms. Harris was ordained a priest in 1980, served at St. Augustine of Hippo Church, a small parish in Norristown, Pa., and was a prison chaplain.
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But Jordan G. from Georgia has been a longtime fan: My favorite social media star happens to be this cute little hippo in this news article.
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Once your plants are groomed, Wirecutter suggests décor like this Schleich hippo figurine to add the finishing touches and get them looking good for the summer.
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"Our pygmy hippo Nicky had fun stomping on and chomping her way through her own spooky squashes," ZSL London Zoo's Animal Operations Manager Angela Ryan said.
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And through it all, various animals — a hippo, a gorilla, a snake, a leopard and more — took chunks out of Mr. Root or otherwise injured him.
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Augustine was forty-three, beginning his tenure as an overwhelmed bishop in Hippo, a port city in North Africa, during the decline of the Roman Empire.
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The hippo cull is slated for the Luangwa River valley in Zambia's Eastern province, the Department of National Parks & Wildlife said last week in a statement.
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There's a custom statue from the artist Bjørn Skaarup, who designed the hippo statue in the tutu out front of Lincoln Center in New York City.
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Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden shared an adorable video of their baby hippo Fiona taking a shower, and it's safe to say: this baby has fully achieved zen.
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Arrieta joins RHP Fergie Jenkins (1969-71) and RHP Hippo Vaughn (1917-20) as the only pitchers in club history with 11 road wins in consecutive seasons.
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Hippo and Blink were locked in a lawsuit for much of last year, with Blink accusing the company of stealing pretty much every aspect of its business.
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Fiona the Hippo, by New York Times bestselling artist Richard Cowdrey, tells Fiona's remarkable tale in a way kids can understand, with whimsical images adorning each page.
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The ice pop shop made pygmy hippo themed pops for a birthday celebration for Holly Berry, featuring special flavors such as Watermelon, Honeydew Basil and Cantaloupe Mint.
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Created by smart home insurance company Hippo, the new Alexa skill aims to "harnesses the power of human awkwardness to ward off unwanted visitors," the company wrote .
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Members of the press recently got a peek at the baby hippo on one of these outings, but she's not ready for her public debut quite yet.
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Offering a more complete home insurance package for less money than traditional insurance sellers, startup insurance broker Hippo Insurance launched its first service this week in California.
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The hippo won't let us get an age on her, but we don't think she's quite as old as Hank..They've been together a long time though.
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A tormented young genius dreams only of hippos; the pictured hippo shifts from our-world gray to all the colors of the universe in the boy's imagination.
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If you have an Amazon Echo or Alexa-enabled speaker this new "Away Mode" skill by Hippo might be the saving grace that doesn't break the bank.
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Okja, a car-sized, pig-like creature with the face of an amiable hippo, was conceived by the Mirando corporation to bring down meat costs and increase production.
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"We're so happy Fiona could be there on our special day," Roll posted on Instagram, along with several photos showing the baby hippo in her front row seat.
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Mr. Potato Head begins slamming his whole hand on the board like an animal, with no strategy, sending hippo food across the table and onto the floor. Mrs.
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In fact, this is the first baby pygmy hippo to be born at the Targona Zoo in seven years, adding one more lovely creature to a dwindling population.
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Around that time, the group become regulars at LA vintage spot Pygmy Hippo Shoppe, where they befriended owner Nathan Cabrera, a longtime creative collaborator of Hanni El Khatib.
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Silicon Valley-based Hippo is also marketing itself as a new kind of homeowners insurance company, with policies that offer stronger protections for common valuables like home electronics.
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Newcomer Ahn Seo-hyun plays Mija, a little girl who's befriended an enormous creature that looks sort of like a cross between a hippo and a hairless dog.
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And these efforts appear to be appreciated by customers: Hippo has a net promoter score of 76, three-times higher than the industry average, according to the startup.
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Wand said Hippo also declined to take a commission on those policies beyond what was being charged by their reinsurer in an effort to reduce the price further.
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Every day, between January and May 3003, when Fiona finally was able to promenade around the hippo tank for the public, seemed to bring a new health crisis.
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Every day, between January and May 15, when Fiona finally was able to promenade around the hippo tank for the public, seemed to bring a new health crisis.
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For one of the biggest beasts around, the hippo is still quite mysterious—scientists don't know much about where they wander or if they wander much at all.
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Strangely, there's a certain joy in knowing that the Sackler fortune has helped contribute to institutions that are free, accessible, and enriching, places that produce William the Hippo.
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McAfee was fond of saying that before the data deluge we have today, the way most large organizations made decisions was via the HiPPO — the highest paid person's opinion.
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The little girl, who is now rather large, has bonded with mom Bibi, met dad Henry and is now spending time with the whole family in their hippo habitat.
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"Our identified mechanism of an epinephrine-driven regulation of the Hippo signaling pathway during exercise could certainly also be envisioned to work in other types of cancer," she said.
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The little hippo harem, on the other hand, was left behind, probably due to the fact that wrangling a 9,000 pound bull can be a life or death situation.
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Biologists who study the animal and its environment are seeing rapid population declines, and must now race to understand what the implications of a hippo-less ecosystem might be.
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BloomReach, which helps ecommerce companies personalize buying experiences using data and algorithms, announced today that it was acquiring Amsterdam-based web content management vendor, Hippo for an undisclosed amount.
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My lexicon now includes HIPPO, meaning "highest-paid person's opinion" ("Taking minutes, wasting hours", June 30th) and VUCA, meaning "volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous" ("The A teams", July 7th).
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"I kind of have the tendency to caricature myself with this bean face, with little hippo nostrils and small eyes and a small mouth," she said with a laugh.
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Scientists are working on it, and say that if no hippo-specific contraceptive is ready by the end of the year they'll try out one that works on pigs.
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Once our "Viral Hippo" account was admitted to the group, likes from popular accounts poured into our posts the moment they were shared, reaching into the hundreds within minutes.
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And the hippo population in Africa will face a significant reduction when a scheduled culling of the animals in Zambia begin in May despite objections from animal rights groups.
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He reaches down and lays a heavy slap on the butt of the younger hippo, Rosie, startling the animal and causing her mother, Mara, to look up in surprise.
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Weighing a little over 10 pounds at birth, the unnamed pygmy hippo calf is roughly the size of a bulldog and yet cuter than any dog you've ever seen.
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While the zoo was concerned that the baby hippo wouldn't make it, Fiona's bravery, strength and charisma (with help from the amazing team at Cincinnati Zoo) pulled her through.
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When Opal the "silliest little hippo" was found, she had very little fur due to a skin infection and was also plagued with a myriad of other health issues.
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In the video for "way it goes," (no caps here), Hippo Campus take you on a snowy cabin getaway, even though the soundtrack is sunny, 60s-influenced indie pop.
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Ceronie tells Latest Sightings that he noticed the hippo on the bridge, but assumed that it was used to humans because there were people walking in the nearby vicinity.
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The bigger picture: Hippo and its insurtech peers are defining the future of the insurance industry — and incumbents would be wise to learn from them before it's too late.
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In the video, Fiona — a baby Nile hippo who was born six weeks premature — is seen watching a flurry of bubbles descend onto a platform, and she seems skeptical.
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She was a long shot to make it this far, but Fiona the hippo turned 1 year old Wednesday ... and the Cincinnati Zoo is having a phat fat celebration!
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We go to a café around the corner from our Airbnb called Green Hippo Café, and I order a bowl with lots of veggies, hummus, and sweet potatoes ($13.03).
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Deeply saddened by the epidemic's effect on my hometown, feeling its reverberating effects too closely, I was comforted by a ceramic hippo I've had since I was a toddler.
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However, Ryan claims there was no time for Kristen to flee as she was thrown right in front of the hippo and immediately taken under water, Tampa Bay Times reported.
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Both genuinely seem to enjoy their mouthy and slobbery interactions, and Bibi seems intent on teaching Fiona how to behave like a proper hippo, even gently disciplining Fiona when necessary.
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When the couple reached the exhibit of one of their favorite animals, international social media sensation Fiona the baby hippo, Kelble got down on one knee and proposed to Roll.
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William also took a trip to the Met's conservation lab last month, where researchers examined and x-rayed the hippo to better understand how he was manufactured from faience paste.
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The 15-year-old hippo suffered "multiple blows on different parts of the body" from "blunt and sharp objects" in Wednesday's attack, the Ministry of Culture said in a statement.
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Back when the song came out, the zoo in Peevey's home town of Oklahoma City used the success of the carol to help raise money for its very first hippo.
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The exhibition is a curated dictionary that illustrates that the meaning of a fox, a horse, or a hippo is not necessarily consistent; animal allegories shift from culture to culture.
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About 4,000 years ago, Egyptians began to associate female hippos with the goddess Taweret: a gloriously topless part-hippo, part-human, part-crocodile protectress of pregnant women and unborn children.
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Moving away from faces, additional emoji possibilities include hair and the lack thereof, a leg, a tooth, a lab coat, a llama, hippo, parrot, and raccoon, and also a mango.
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Spanking a hippo may not be bad enough to be called "animal cruelty" in the eye of the law, but it is, undoubtedly, a disrespectful and shitty thing to do.
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On Wednesday's premiere, six of the 12 masked celebrities faced off, with the Peacock taking on the Hippo, the Unicorn battling the Monster, and the Lion competing against the Deer.
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Magic school clashes with a murder mystery in Magic for Liars, the debut novel from Sarah Gailey, best known for their American Hippo short stories — but with one key twist.
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The front-runners captured images of a leopard seal lunging for a penguin, a male hippo crushing a newborn in its jaws, and a sea turtle strangled by a rope.
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According to Little Hippo, the company that created Mella, many of the sleep trainers on the market are either too simplistic for the price or have too many confusing buttons.
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At the very least, you'll want to make sure it isn't a hock of Okja, the big, brown-eyed hippo creature whose salvation seats this girl-and-her-monster story.
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According to their reporting, startups like Hippo, Ro, and Tiny Organics are slashing ad budgets, offering free products, or ramping up content as they try and ride out the crisis.
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When the fog mysteriously recedes, though, only to return with greater and more dangerous force, Pig, Fox and Fox's insensitive friend Hippo are thrown into the world beyond the dam.
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But Rory's plot — in which she calls a ballerina a hippo in a published review — is a nice milestone in the slow destruction of her angelic Stars Hollow image. 125.
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Nicky the pygmy hippo didn't waste her time on gourd-gazing, she powerful jawed her way through a whole patch of pumpkins before taking a break from the festive buffet.
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Henry hippo is currently tipping the scales at right around 3400lbs (literally 10 times Fiona's size) and it would be extremely easy for Henry to injure Fiona if he wanted to.
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Two burials had disintegrated headpieces with intricate latticed arrangements of mammal incisors...Another individual was buried with 12 perforated hippo tusks that may have been strung together and worn in life.
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"A thousand pounds is an exciting number and a big number and she's a third of the way to being a full-grown hippo, so that's a big deal," Wingate said.
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Plied with a little bit of food, Fiona the baby hippo, April the giraffe and animals of all sizes (from rescue skunks to elephants) happily made their predictions know this week.
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Now, the next time you hear someone pipe up about this precious hippo calf, you can seamlessly join the conversation and fully appreciate all the future Fiona milestones still to come.
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Here, Taylor demonstrates a textbook case of "cute rage," which is when we feel aggression toward something we find adorable (a baby hippo, a baby human, a dog outside a Walgreens).
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The day before, rangers found a poaching camp, uncovering a haul of carcasses—buffalo, crocodile, giant forest hog, monkey, water buck, and hippo (its teeth, a valuable substitute for elephant ivory).
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Hippo deploys a range of technologies, including IoT, satellite imagery, and automation, to deliver insurance policies to homeowners, and claims that customers can save up to 25% compared with conventional insurers.
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See more: Buzzy DTC startups like Hippo, Ro, and Tiny Organics are slashing ad budgets, offering free products, or ramping up content as they try and ride out the coronavirus crisis
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The Cubs' Hippo Vaughn, who fanned 10, allowed two hits and an unearned run in the 10th and lost to the Reds' Fred Toney, who finished a 10-inning no-hitter.
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It's expensive and dangerous to move or castrate them and when one hippo was killed in 2009, the public was outraged, so culling is not really an option either, Wilcox wrote.
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The hippo has an officially branded name, William, and it's a replica of an artifact from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Egyptian art wing, steps away from the Temple of Dendur.
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But as I looked from the wedding-white princess, with her blank expression and tiny earrings, to the ceramic hippo, and from the yawning hippo to the grimacing, listing baby, and as I struggled to reconcile the chaotic bouquet of sadness, silliness, yearning, dislocation and theatrically exaggerated self-consciousness that Ms. Anderson's work evoked in me, I finally recognized the performance she was going for: It was a long, slow wink, and I was doing it.
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But what about the probability of death given that some person has actually 'stumbled upon' the animal in question—the 'oops, I've come within 5 m of a hippo/buffalo/lion effect'?
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Given the hellscape of the contemporary daily news cycle, many of us are feeling especially susceptible to just about any innocent, logged-off being, whether that's a "pitopotamus" or a literal hippo.
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Fox viewers were thrilled to see who was underneath the hippo costume on Wednesday's premiere of The Masked Singer, but the coach and players of the Pittsburgh Steelers were likely less so.
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She was severely underweight, at only 212 pounds (hippo newborns usually fall into the range of about 55 to 120 pounds, as the zoo noted in its blog post announcing Fiona's birth).
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The fifth-century Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo railed against those Christians who sacralized the expansionist history of Rome as the steady progress of God's plan to unify and Christianize the world.
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The zoo has since installed a "No Trespassing" sign at the hippo pen, because apparently it's not already abundantly clear how dangerous and stupid jumping into a wild animal exhibit can be.
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With no intelligent tools to derive meaning from the full spectrum of customer interactions and evaluate the how, when, where and why behind actions, the HiPPO approach can be crippling for businesses.
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"We're so happy Fiona could be there on our special day," the bride-to-be posted on Instagram, along with several photos showing the baby hippo in her front row seat. Oct.
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This patchwork has created a vital paradise, home to hundreds of bird species and imperiled populations of megafauna—lion and leopard, chimpanzee and antelope, hippo and buffalo, wild dog and golden cat.
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In July, Fiona announced on PEOPLE that she is coming out with a book about her inspiring survival story called Saving Fiona: Science, Social Media, and the Story of a Baby Hippo.
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NAIROBI, Aug 12 (Reuters) - A Chinese tourist has died in Kenya after being attacked by a hippo on the shores of Lake Naivasha, the East African nation's wildlife service said on Sunday.
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A blue hippo tang — the "Finding Dory" fish — along with six polka-dot pajama cardinals and a dozen other saltwater species of various rainbow hues flitted through a forest of imitation coral.
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" He believes that "Hippo has everything in place to capitalize on the consumer shift to digital home insurance: superior technology, a highly qualified team, and distribution partnerships out of reach for competitors.
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"The channel mix is going to change a lot [since] it could be six to 18 months of people working from home," Andrea Collins, vp of marketing at unicorn startup Hippo, said.
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"We're delighted to bring readers behind the scenes at the Cincinnati Zoo where Thane Maynard's hardworking team dedicated itself to saving the world's favorite baby hippo," says Catherine Onder, SVP and Publisher, HMH.
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The scenario above was decidedly not the case on Tuesday at the Cincinnati Zoo, where the once premature baby hippo Fiona was joined in the pool by her parents for the first time.
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Wand, who co-founded the startup in 2015 with Eyal Navon, said he spent 14 years imagining the technology that would become Hippo, inspired by his father's career in the antiquated insurance industry.
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According to UPI, the female hippo escaped the zoo on Wednesday evening, casually strolling out of an open gate, only to return of her own accord through the same gate two minutes later.
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He says that Hippo, currently licensed for California, Arizona and Texas, can also cover a lot of home emergencies that standard insurance doesn't cover, including problems stemming from service lines or broken appliances.
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It was the largest predator in its ecosystem, a fragmented forest inhabited by early apes, hippo relatives and elephant relatives, and was probably the largest carnivorous land mammal in Africa up to that time.
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Now, Twitter user Dieting Hippo has fittingly immortalized the demonic space in BATHDOOM—a new map for 1994's Doom II that allows players to wander the legendarily bad bathroom as the bloodthirsty Doomguy.
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Members of the band Hippo Campus find themselves having some meta-CG fun in their new music video for "western kids," which sees them cavorting about inside, of all places, some 3D animation software.
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Women and members of underrepresented groups, who are rarely afforded the opportunity to be the loudest voices or the HiPPO, are better able to get ideas across backed by data-validated, agreed-upon facts.
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Hippo mom Boipelo proudly led her little calf into their zoo habitat this past weekend, and the pair "made themselves right at home," according to Megan Lumpkin, one of the zoo's animal care supervisors.
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It can explain to people with little knowledge of biology, for example, that the blue whale is more closely related to a clown than a clown fish, to a hippo than a sea otter.
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One led by a parade of animal-headed men in red, white and blue striped skirts and platform hooves, Mr. Browne's Greek chorus: a giraffe, a hippo, a lion, a horse (and so on).
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"Pre-launch, it's really important to bring on PR support early," said Andrea Collins, who is the VP of marketing for Hippo Insurance, a DTC insurance company, and also advises startups on PR hiring.
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From its clever gadgets to its hidden gems (because where else can you add foot cream and a hippo ballerina costume to the same cart?) the options are as abundant as they are diverse.
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Scientists have used chemical markers to determine that many fish and insects feed off hippo dung—a practice known as "coprophagia"—which suggests the species plays a key role in connecting aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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In the near term Hippo will operate under its own brand as a BloomReach company with the two companies combining in a more official way in 2017 with content and commerce businesses under one umbrella.
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Sony was super-psyched to show me one of the user-built robots created by a Japanese customer that was essentially a version of the company's hippo that plays custom MIDIs of J-Pop songs.
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Via Fuelgram, Viral Hippo also liked and commented on an endless stream of posts — posts from doctors, lawyers, professional influencers, self-proclaimed venture capitalists, models, fitness gurus, marketing agencies, and even a few baby accounts.
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This is another major milestone for the preemie that almost didn't make it, weighing a fifth of what a normal baby hippo would weigh when she was born on 1/24/17 #TBT #TeamFiona pic.twitter.
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While we know the HiPPO approach (highest paid person's opinion) hasn't worked, it's been a slog trying to get data in front of the right workers to propel more data-driven decision making inside organizations.
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Around the same time, an early ape known as Proconsul was living in the trees, while anthracotheres (tall and slender hippo-relatives), elephant relatives, and giant hyraxes (imagine a huge marmot) foraged on the ground.
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" The latest update from zoo staff includes a video of the baby hippo's first bath, as well as the following statement: "Our two-day-old baby hippo, born six week early, is hanging in there.
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Instead, there is frantic flailing, with a scene in the Garden of Eden, an orgy attended by a hippo, genuflections toward "The Da Vinci Code," and, to cap it all, Sting dressed as a monk.
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Earlier this week, after her morning routine of getting weighed and then drinking 60 ounces of formula in the zoo's kitchen, the little hippo walked into a "Fiona-proofed" shower and apparently, really, really loved it.
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Facebook posts and the hashtag #TeamFiona have also inspired people to send in donations from around the world, which have helped the Cincinnati zoo staff provide 24-hour-a-day care for the heartwarming little hippo.
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Viral Hippo, the BuzzFeed News–created Instagram account that used Fuelgram to rack up more than 1,500 likes on a photo of a black square, netted almost double that on a photo of a yellow square.
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In a short clip on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, the star gave a preview to the baby's new room, which also saw her 3½-year-old son Brayden James riding his little brother's hippo rocker.
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The shittiness of hassling caged animals aside, hippos can actually be pretty dangerous—National Geographic named them one of the world's most aggressive animals, and a wild hippo killed two people in Kenya just last week.
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Asking around the Verge offices, a few staffers seemed to side with cat-themed transport, but others got a little more creative, suggesting that they'd rather catch a ride in a whale- or hippo-type train.
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Video NEW JERSEY WOMAN STRANGLES RABID FOX AFTER ANIMAL BITES HER LEG Later in the day, a Kenyan fisherman was also mauled by another hippo a few miles from where the initial incident occurred, police said.
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The stuffed hippo, the stuffed tiger, the three or four stuffed dogs, the stuffed orca and toucan and platypus and turtle—I gathered them all into my arms like the storybook zookeeper of some peaceable kingdom.
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It features a gorgeous white crib, Aztec baby blanket, hippo rocker and some very on-brand touches like a stuffed beet and a rainbow wall hanging, proving her baby will surely share Yeh's passion for rainbow sprinkles.
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Although the exact age of Bertha is difficult to determine in the absence of any paperwork, the zoo claims that she was born in 1952 -- making her the oldest recorded hippo to have ever lived in captivity.
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Given this, insurers need to double down on their digital transformation efforts; they lag behind their bank peers on this front so far, but the likes of Hippo offer incumbents a route to turbocharging their transformation efforts.
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It stems from an Aboriginal folktale, which describes the creature as a monster that lurks around swamps and lagoons, described as having a long neck and a body similar to that of an ox, hippo, or manatee.
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Hank and his purple hippo are a bonded pair, so if you aren't ready for a 4 year old Chocolate Lab to come home when you adopt your fuzzy Hippopotamus...well, sorry, we can't approve your application.
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The zoo's director, Thane Maynard, sold a children's book called "Saving Fiona: The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo" to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, scheduled for the spring of 2018, with proceeds benefiting the animal's care.
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"After the hippo song, they thought, 'Well, that was a big hit,' so every song they gave me after that was an animal song and they were not good songs, let me tell you," Ms. Peevey said.
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" Let us bask for a moment in how this thinking worked out for bEatmstrJ: In a Twitter direct message, Dieting Hippo described the results as looking like "a bathroom that would appeal to cans of Axe body spray.
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In its March 2018 suit against Hippo, Blink wanted up to $250 million and had accused the company, which was founded by former Blink employees, of obtaining trade secrets, sabotaging existing contracts and unfairly competing with Blink's business.
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Because the ancient creature was only living about a quarter as long as it did before the extinction event, it became much smaller and less heavy—think pygmy hippo-sized to large dog-sized—but much more prolific.
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Chang Ming Chuang, 66, and his friend, Wu Peng Te, were at the edge of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley when a witness said they got too close to a hippo and were attacked, the BBC reported.
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Charles Banda said the hippo population could not be supported by the water levels in the Luangwa river where most of the animals are located, while moving them elsewhere in the southern African country would be too costly.
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There are already a handful of startups, including SoftBank-backed Lemonade, Trōv, Cover, Hippo and Swyfft, that use algorithms to make picking and buying insurance policies easier for consumers, but AI-based underwriting is still a nascent category.
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Picture takers from 100 countries submitted 48,000 entries for the contest, including photos of a leopard seal lunging for a penguin, a male hippo crushing a newborn in its jaws, and a sea turtle strangled by a rope.
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Then they compared that set of genes to those of the cetaceans' nearest relatives, the hippo family, and pinpointed 85 genes that were switched off or inactivated in the cetaceans' ancestor during its move to the aquatic life.
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Thanks to the resurgence in the song's popularity, Ms. Peevey — who goes by the surname Henderson except for hippo-related matters — has been deluged with calls and emails from newspapers, television stations and fans all over the world.
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Apparently, there was some correct speculation from the judges that it was an athlete, but they guessed Odell Beckham Jr. or Deion Sanders, only to find out that it was Antonio Brown under a Run DMC-inspired hippo getup.
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It's different than meme-making because she's doing something different/learning something new each day, so we aren't seeing repeats of the same image of her over and over again, but participating in some kind of hippo Truman Show.
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He suggests that it was the apostle Paul and Augustine of Hippo who invented Christianity, turning a local Jewish movement into a universal one that Jesus never intended, and turning Jesus himself from a prophet into "God on earth".
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In a clip shared to Instagram, the mom-to-be showed off the white, navy and beige-colored room, which included a changing table/dresser, a recliner, a crib, a mini table with chairs and an adorable hippo rocker.
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During outdoor habitat exploration, they stand on the other side of the glass, encouraging the little hippo, so she can get used to the faces of her adoring public that will soon fill the other side of her exhibit.
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Hippo not only uses its technology to optimize pricing for potential policyholders, but offers tech-enabled devices like leak detectors and other IOT tools to monitor homes and ensure their upkeep, so policy payouts don't get out of hand.
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Israeli political ads make even their cheekiest American counterparts look staid by comparison: In the sprint to Election Day, voters' social media feeds have been buffeted by ads showing an actual targeted killing and a less authentic flatulent hippo.
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In addition to the trio in the finale, this season's contestants were: Joey Fatone - Rabbit Rumer Willis - Lion La Toya Jackson - Alien Ricki Lake - Raven Tori Spelling - Unicorn Terry Bradshaw - Deer ... Margaret Cho - PoodleAntonio Brown - Hippo Tommy Chong - Pineapple.
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According to Martine, Ryan's account differs from Wild Horizons' story, making it unclear as to whether or not Kristen listened to directions to swim away from the hippo and why it took so long for her to receive medical attention.
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The researchers traced this anti-tumor activity to a rise in epinephrine and norepinephrine that occurs with moderately intense exercise and its effect on the a gene-signaling pathway known as Hippo that, among other things, helps to suppress tumor development.
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Here, of course, you are a bird, your assistant is a sparrow, your client is a cat, the murder victim is a frog, and the jury of your peers is a curious crowd including a hippo, a ram, and a seal.
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The baby hippo, born six weeks premature at the Cincinnati Zoo last January, has become a bonafide celebrity in her first year of life, making headlines with everything from her first steps to that time she crashed an engagement photo.
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While the companies wouldn't comment on how long the Hippo management team was contractually obligated to remain with BloomReach after the purchase, it is worth noting that Verberg is joining the BloomReach board of directors as part of the deal.
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Please, behold this glorious hippo couch, painstakingly crafted out of the finest of fake leathers: Sure, uh, the thing costs $95,000, but that is a small price to pay for such a striking centerpiece for your new, grown-up home, right?
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Depending who you ask, they might consider Fiona an icebreaker for discussions about wildlife conservation, a reprieve from toxic online spaces, an icon of body positivity, the queen of pop, a cute distraction, literally just a hippo — the list goes on.
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The long and litigious saga of Hippo Technologies may finally be over now that the company is finally launching its service to sell discounted prescription drugs to members just three months after settling a lawsuit with its chief competitor, Blink Health.
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Making the opposite point in the general spirit of Alan Belcher's media-based sculptures is Roth's rumpled bundle "Forgetting Summer" (2017), which crushes (by industrial compactor) his printed browser history into a spit-wad the size of a newborn hippo.
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Insurance startups have raised billions as industry players fight tech disruptors "Hippo has set the bar for the future of insurance with its fully automated, proprietary policy management and proactive underwriting," Felicis managing director Victoria Treyger said in a statement.
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"Most of my friends are being asked to slash their [marketing] budgets by half," said Andrea Collins, who is VP of marketing for online insurance startup Hippo and a consultant to other DTC startups, and has also cut ad spending.
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I couldn't credibly act tough, but I knew I had to fight if you called me "Lippo the Hippo," and that exchanging confidences with other boys was risky — we were trained to be competitive and any vulnerability would be exploited.
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"A nap may not seem significant but it was an important milestone for Team Fiona to see our hippo bloat comfortable enough to sleep together as one 'pod,' " staff wrote in a Thursday Instagram post that featured a video of the bloated bunch.
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On Monday, the Cincinnati Zoo and Artworks, a non-profit that employs and trains young artists to help contribute to community art, announced that they are working together to create a giant mural of Ohio's number one hippo star on a local building.
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Comcast Ventures has a plan to jumpstart direct-to-consumers companies like Away and Hippo and it's already slashing their customer acquisition costsOver in media, the rise of OTT is disrupting TV companies, but ad tech companies are picking up the spoils.
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"In the first six weeks, there was at least once a week when we were sure she was going to die," said Ms. Gorsuch, who was wearing a pair of hippo-shaped stud earrings in her office next to the antelope pen.
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And I get his point but—oh man, I felt that, the way that hippo got stabbed accidentally and was just going off to die, and the way animals like that go off to die is like my dying on the street alone.
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Early Christians, influenced by Augustine of Hippo, who in the fifth century decided that Adam and Eve had been thrown out of the Garden of Eden because of lust, decided that sex was a sin, and condemned all sorts of things, including masturbation.
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This excerpt of Jes Baker's essay, "Elephant, Hippo, and Other Nicknames I Love" from The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce, edited by Angie Manfredi (September 2019) appears with permission of the publisher, Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams.
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It's hard to know how many people are at risk of hippo attack, and thus to calculate the rate at which those people are in fact attacked by hippos, but there's nonetheless plenty of cases of hippos killing or severely injuring humans.
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The bolts were bent back by the force of the collision, demonstrating the tremendous power generated by a ton and a half of fast-moving hippo but the encounter was not completely one-sided as there were blood stains on the bolts.
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On the heels of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) report and the U.S.-led Peacekeeping Summit in 2015, high-level U.N. officials have repeatedly emphasized that peacekeeping performance matters and that the failure to protect civilians will not be tolerated.
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Instagram's algorithms use comments and likes as key signals when deciding which posts to place at the top of your feed and its discovery-focused Explore page — and Fuelgram's likes and comments helped Viral Hippo reach a broad audience beyond those who followed the account.
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But it's not just smart devices Hippo leverages to offer a more proactive service to customers: Last year when wildfires broke out in California, the startup used AI and active maps to determine which of its customers were within the fire zone, for example.
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This was the era of Grumpy Cat, a close friend of Mashable since 2012; of Fiona the Hippo, social media star at the Cincinnati Zoo; of Porgs, the fair fowl featured in The Last Jedi, which spurred online fandom from the first trailer onwards.
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He cherished it from the air, circling in a microlight over the dry rolling plains, the miombo woodlands, the white river bed and the bright-green hippo marshes; he surveyed it from lurching Land Rovers and on foot, brushing his way through the tall elephant grass.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1931, an article appeared in the now defunct British weekly Punch that described the mystique of one small, faience hippo — the ancient Egyptian statuette, decorated with lotus flowers, that is today among the most recognized objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A US$218m loan for un-rated marketing company Golden Hippo and a US$242m incremental loan for B rated midstream oil and gas company Glass Mountain Pipeline were pulled from the market earlier in August, with the latter firm opting for an equity injection from its sponsor BlackRock.
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In all seriousness, this was an amazing feat not just for Fiona, but for the staff at the zoo who worked round the clock to nurse her back to health, and who are still, to this day, making sure she gets on track and lives her best hippo life.
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You can access it by clicking "Watch" on the lefthand column of your Facebook homepage — from there, you will able to search for RelationShipped, as well as the platform's other shows like Strangers (produced by Refinery29) and The Fiona Show, which tells the story of Fiona the hippo.
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With 104 vehicles — named after the condor, hippo, wolverine, scorpion, puma, crayfish, and mongoose (according to the company's last disengagement report from December) and of course, those ubiquitous Chevy Bolts — the startup-turned-major-car-company project has a large fleet with which to attempt to hit its target.
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"The quality of this particular statuette and its excellent state of preservation make 'William' the best example of this type of object in our collection, and he is the faience hippo statuette that visitors react to most strongly," Isabel Stünkel, the associate curator of the Department of Egyptian Art told Hyperallergic.
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The first thing to grab your attention is the window, where two Mendelson sculptures are perched on pedestals ("Blue Hippo 1," 2012, and "Animal with Vessel in Net," 2017); the next thing you notice is the adjacent white mantelpiece, over which Hackett's painting "Before the Rain" (2017) hangs off center.
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And Gailey's worldbuilding clearly establishes a much larger world (something that they established themselves as particularly proficient at in their American Hippo novellas.) Ultimately, Magic for Liars is a great debut for Gailey, with fun characters, an interesting mystery to unravel, and a unique spin on the magical noir genre.
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Tips for reviewing your homeowner insurance policy: "The cost to rebuild is what matters, and most homeowners have no idea of building cost," said Assaf Wand, founder and chief executive officer of fintech start-up Hippo Insurance, which has sold about 1,000 policies in California since its launch in the spring.
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I mean, heck the moment I first laid eyes on you I already thought you were the most beautiful hippo I had ever seen and yet SOMEHOW, SOME WAY you just keep knocking me off my feet…and that ain't easy…I HAVE FOUR and a low center of gravity!
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Insurance has been a hot business for startup investors, with companies like Cover launching with a similar, on-demand offering already operating in the U.S. Other competitors include companies like Lemonade and Hippo, which both offer homeowners or renters insurance for a modern home — including insurance for electronics, photography equipment and other possessions.
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Comcast Ventures has a plan to jumpstart direct-to-consumers companies like Away and Hippo and it's already slashing their customer acquisition costsWith massive growth in venture capital, VC firms are scrambling for the chance to invest in the next unicorn by retooling their business models and looking for ways to differentiate.
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Since Fiona spent so much of the beginning of her life in the care of humans, we don't know if Bibi and Fiona understand that they are mother and daughter, however their fondness for each other cannot be denied and Bibi has definitely taken on the roll of mentor to our little hippo baby.
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Most of the new insurance companies have pitched services to renters and city dwellers made up of the mostly millennial demographic, while Hippo is aiming its services squarely at homeowners for whom the industry is no less broken, but whose demographics are more likely to be Gen X and Gen Y than their millennial progeny.
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