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5 5 5 The Hippopotamus

Can you complete these sentences using the correct words. You can take help of your teacher.
1. Hippos spend most of the day in the _______________.

2. They can spend _______________ hours a day in water, keeping their body cool.
3. They live in _______________. They are good _______________.
4. Their eyes, _______________ and _______________ are all near the top of their heads,

so they can still see, hear and _______________ even when they are nearly completely
under the water.
5. Hippos eat _______________. They are so large, they need to eat a lot of it.

6. In the _______________ they get out of the water to _______________.
7. A baby hippo is called a _______________.

8. Hippos have very powerful _______________ and can ever crush.

Colour the given picture of a hippopotamus.

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