Pygmy hippopotamus Pygmy hippopotamus The pygmy hippopotamus ("Choeropsis liberiensis" or "Hexaprotodon liberiensis") is a small hippopotamid which is native to the forests and swamps of West Africa, primarily in Liberia, with small populations in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Ivory Coast. The pygmy hippo is reclusive and nocturnal. It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being its much larger relative, the common hippopotamus ("Hippopotamus amphibius") or Nile hippopotamus. The pygmy hippopotamus displays many terrestrial adaptations, but like the hippo, it is semiaquatic and relies on water to keep its skin moist and its body temperature cool.
Jugulator (mammal) displayed these behaviours. "Jugulator" occurs in the mid-Cretaceous deposits of the Cedar Mountain Formation, where several of North America's more iconic dinosaurs like "Utahraptor" and "Cedarosaurus" occur. A large variety of mammal species are known from here as well, including other eutriconodonts like "Astroconodon" and "Corviconodon" as well as multituberculates like "Cedaromys" and "Janumys" and several therian mammals such as "Montanalestes" and "Atokatheridium". These diverse mammal faunas offer a transition from dominant taxa in the Early Cretaceous and the multituberculate and therian dominated laurasian mammalian faunas of the Late Cretaceous. Jugulator (mammal) Jugulator is a genus of extinct mammal from