verb (used with object), trundled, trundling. 1. to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll. 2. to convey or move in a wagon, cart, or other wheeled vehicle; wheel: The farmer trundled his produce to market in a rickety wagon.
Hippos are threatened by habitat loss and poachers who hunt them for their meat and teeth. A male hippopotamus is called a âbullâ. A female hippopotamus is called a âcowâ. A baby hippo is called a âcalfâ. A group of hippos in known as a âherdâ, âpodâ, âdaleâ or âbloatâ. Hippos typically live for around 45 years. Hippos eat mostly grass.
Opossums are the only North American marsupials. They carry their young first in the uterus, just as other mammals do, and then later in an external pouch called the marsupium, meaning âdouble womb.â These creatures shared the earth with dinosaurs over 70 million years ago. While dinosaurs are extinct, opossums are still here, relatively unchanged.