{"id":26975,"date":"2026-02-15T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26975"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:25:04","slug":"world-hippo-day-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26975","title":{"rendered":"World Hippo Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27230\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27230\" class=\"wp-image-27230 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Hippo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hippopotamus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>World Hippo Day is today!<\/strong> The day reminds us to make sure hippos survive and thrive. The animals&#8217; name is interesting: <em>hippos<\/em> means <em>horse<\/em> and <em>potamos<\/em> means <em>river<\/em>. So the animals&#8217; name is apt: a river horse. Two types of hippos exist today. The common hippo is on the vulnerable list and the pigmy hippo is on the endangered list. Both types exist in sub-Saharan Africa. They are the third largest land mammal, after elephants and rhinos. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/animals\/general-animals\/ten-hippo-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hippos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Hippo Day is today! The day reminds us to make sure hippos survive and thrive. The animals&#8217; name is interesting: hippos means horse and potamos means river. So the animals&#8217; name is apt: a river horse. Two types of hippos exist today. The common hippo is on the vulnerable list and the pigmy hippo <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26975' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[415,5310,6469,6470,6467,6468],"class_list":["post-26975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-africa","tag-february-15","tag-hippo","tag-hippopotamus","tag-world-hippo-day","tag-world-hippopotamus-day","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26975"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29160,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26975\/revisions\/29160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}