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
Cloud-forest pygmy owl cloud-forest pygmy owl populations. Unfortunately, the cloud-forest pygmy owl benefits little from existing conservation units, with no records from large protected areas despite the existence of apparently suitable habitat. Cloud-forest pygmy owl The cloud-forest pygmy owl ("Glaucidium nubicola") is a short, muscular, small-sized species of owl found throughout the Andes of western Colombia and north-western Ecuador, being confined to cloud forests between 900–2000 m a.s.l. Below this altitudinal range the Central American pygmy owl ("Glaucidium griseiceps") occurs; above it, the Andean pygmy owl ("Glaucidium jardinii") occurs. Its epithet "nubicola" is Latin for “cloud-inhabiting”, because this species is restricted to very