woolly hippopotamus
English
Noun
- A hypothesized extinct relative to the hippopotamus that supposedly lived in northern or western Europe during the Ice Age.
- 1956, Marie Hartley, Joan Ingleby, The Yorkshire Dales, page 87:
- Here you will find evidence that over the hills of Craven straight-tusked elephant, slender-nosed rhinoceros, woolly hippopotamus, and ox (Bos Primigenius) once roamed, and ended their days in the Victoria cave, a hyena's den, probably during the tropical period of the Great Inter-Glacial period.
- a. 1985, Fernand Braudel, Roselyne de Ayala, Paule Braudel, Memory and the Mediterranean, published 2001, page 25:
- It is true that the "woolly hippopotamus", now extinct, was adapted to a cold climate!...In 1960, excavations in Larissa in Thessaly brought to light "mammoth and hippopotamus bones as well as tools made of flint and bone […]
- 1992, W. R. Mitchell, Three Peaks and Malhamdale, page 7:
- Below these deposits was a thick layer of glacial clay, separating the comparitively modern remains from the bones of pre-Ice Age creatures such as woolly hippopotamus, slender-nosed rhinoceros and straight-tusked elephant, which doubtless roamed the district during the warm inter-glacial period.
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