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Hippos don't swim—they run underwater

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Forget swimming, these hefty aquatic bulldozers just aggressively sink and run. They are far too dense to actually float, so they merely prance along the dark riverbeds like majestic underwater ballerinas.

Hippos don't swim—they run underwater
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