Sentence examples for hippo meat from inspiring English sources

Hippo meat has become a delicacy in some parts of Africa, and hippo teeth are regarded by some as a substitute for elephant ivory.

The sale of hippo meat is illegal, but black-market sales are difficult for Virunga National Park officers to track.

He put the remaining smoked hippo meat in the boiling water so that it would become moist, adding salt and eventually the simsim paste.

Hippo meat is considered a delicacy in some areas of central Africa and the teeth have become a valued substitute for elephant ivory.

The cigarette is but an item in their sophisticated charms HAULING TWO TONS OF HIPPO MEAT HOME TO THEIR VILLAGE Women of the Kavirondo tribe, inhabiting the north-east end of Lake Victoria, are most enterprising.

One 1973 feast by the Explorer's Club devoured hippo meat, a 4 feet alligator, a baby shark, an amberjack tuna, a boa, wild boar hams, 480 pieces of breaded-fried cod tongues and cheeks, antelope steaks, two boxes of Chinese rabbit, and 20 pounds of rattlesnake.

As it goes, there's evidence that hippos eat meat, including the flesh of other hippos; scientists aren't sure if the flesh-eating hippos are compensating for a lack of nutrients or they've been eating animal tissue all along and we've just noticed.

Hippos quite often like to eat meat in the night.

The stomach anatomy of a hippo is not suited to carnivory, and meat-eating is likely caused by aberrant behavior or nutritional stress.

Their instinct is predation, to kill any meat that floats their way, be it fish, hippo, antelope or human.

On another occasion, a zoo owner showed up with a dead hippo, and the butchers at the San Juan market jumped at the chance to sell meat enthusiasts a once-in-a-lifetime barbecue opportunity.