Pygmy hippopotamus occur. The common hippopotamus gives birth and mates only in the water, but pygmy hippos mate and give birth on both land and water. Young pygmy hippos can swim almost immediately. At birth, pygmy hippos weigh 4.5–6.2 kg (9.9–13.7 lb) with males weighing about 0.25 kg (0.55 lb) more than females. Pygmy hippos are fully weaned between six and eight months of age; before weaning they do not accompany their mother when she leaves the water to forage, but instead hide in the water by themselves. The mother returns to the hiding spot about three times a day and calls
Pygmy salamander Pygmy salamander The pygmy salamander (or pigmy salamander, "Desmognathus wrighti") is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the United States in the southern Appalachians in North Carolina and Tennessee. "Desmognathus wrighti" is a member of the family Plethodontidae and is commonly known as the pygmy salamander. As the name suggest the pygmy salamander is the smallest of the nineteen species in the genus "Desmognathus". "D. wrighti" undergoes direct development and does not have a free-living larval stage. Only two other taxa in "Desmognathus", "D. aeneus" and "D. organi", exhibit direct development along with the