You can feed the pachyderms at the Budapest Zoo
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Hungry Hungarian Hippos
Oh TIL that, while pachyderms are elephants, they're also hippos and rhinoceroses and tapirs! Good thing I checked before being confidently incorrect! Don't trust anything you learned as a child.
Sure, but pachyderms are a polyphyletic group that doesn't match with genetics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachydermata
Elephants cluster with hyraxes, manatees, and dugongs.
Hippos are closer to whales, dolphins, and porpoises than any is to elephants.
Rhinos are closer to horses and tapirs than any is to hippos or elephants.
Yes, the word is not used to group them scientifically anymore, but can still describe them as thick-skinned.
The hungry Hungary hippos have thick but sensitive skin, so they soak in the swamp. Rampageous rhinoceroses and easygoing elephants also have thick skin, often mottled with mud, as they saunter through the savannah.
Awesome alliteration.
I laughed.
I'm also drunk.
So either the joke is good or I'm easily amused right now. I'd say it's both. Good work.
As long as the aren't Technicolor. That would really be too much for me