104+ Best Hippo Day Quotes, Puns & Sayings

There are hundreds of Quotes and slogans available on Hippo online. I have shortlisted few good slogans, quotes, puns and proverbs to save your time and energy. Here they are!

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Save Hippopotamus Slogans, Quotes, Taglines & Instagram Captions | World Hippo Day

Save our hippos!
Save the mighty hippos
Big hippos weigh more than a ton;
don’t eat their meat, just for fun
Hippo’s jaws have supreme power and force;
stop captivating them, for entertaining shows
Hippos have a very strong bite;
killing them for meat is, not at all right!
Hippos have a good night vision;
let’s save them from shameful extinction
Hippo’s night vision is very very good;
fruits & grass are their favourite food
Hippo is a warm-blooded creature,
let’s save them, with all our pleasure
Hippos love grass as their food;
don’t go near them, for your own good
Hippos are losing their habitat;
take some action, don’t just chitchat
Hippos are vanishing at a faster rate,
poaching is causing a very big threat
Hippos are becoming endangered,
poachers have made, their future blurred
Hundreds of hippos are killed every year,
Illegal Ivory trade is not at all fair
Hippo’s legs are thick and strong,
killing them for tusk is very very wrong
Look at the hippos mighty and strong,
killing them for their meat is very very wrong
Ivory is not our need,
Don’t kill hippos for your greed
Save our deadly hippos
Say NO to ivory poaching
Save our grumpy friends
Don’t buy hippo tusks
Don’t fall for illegal meat trade
Let’s get together and stop hippo slaughter!
Hippos – friend, not food
Too awesome to die! Save the Hippo
Save our majestic friends
All lives matter
They’re just so darn amazing!
Hippos always make me smile!
Save our fat friends!
Protect and respect

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I’m wild about hippos
Responsible tourism = hippo friendly tourism
Let’s save hippos
I love hippos, Do you?
Let’s join hands to save hippos
Don’t let me disappear
Together we can save hippos
Save hippo, Save life… Save planet
Live & let live
Rivers and hippos are made for each other.
Without them, the world will not be the same. Save Hippo
Save the hippos before they start living just in our stories.
Nature is not against Hippos, why are you?
Once the hippo is history, it won’t repeat itself…
Don’t let the hippos go missing from the planet. Save them.
Big fat hippo looks cuddly and cute;
protect them without any dispute
We are polluting poor hippo’s habitat;
Let’s save rivers & lakes, don’t just chitchat
Save rivers, Save Hippos
Don’t kill the beauty of the Africa
Your greed kills a life. Stop illegal meet trading
What is my crime?
Keep calm & save the hippo
Have a heart, do your part. Save the hippo.
Fight for the hippo’s right
Being ‘Extinct’ Stinks!
Extinction is forever
If hippos are lost,
we will pay the cost.
The ones who have no voice, need you to speak up.
Save these majestic creatures
Let’s unite as one,
saving hippos is just so fun

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Help save their existence,
hippos need your assistance
For the hippos you must fight,
so they won’t disappear out of sight
Hippos are rapidly fading away;
can’t we help them in some way?
It’s no fun to be endanger;
show you care, don’t be a stranger.
Only if we understand… we can care;
Only if we care…we will help;
Only if we help… they shall be saved
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it alright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” ― Henry David Thoreau

Funny & Family Friendly Puns, Jokes & Riddles on Hippo / Hippopotamus

I have got Hippo-thermia
I know Hippo-notism
Don’t be a Hippo-crite
What’s a hippos favorite kind of music?
— Hip-hop
What time is it when a hippo sits on your bed?
— Time to get a new bed
Why are hippos so wrinkled?
— Because it takes too long to iron them
What do you call hippo who never cleans his room?
— A hippopota-mess
What did the hippo get when he started exercising every day?
— Hippopota-muscles
Where do Christian hippos go on Sundays?
— To Hippopota-mass
What do you call a jolly hippo?
— Happo
What’s the best thing to do if a hippo sneezes?
— Get out of the way
Where should you bury a dead hippo?
— In a hippo-crypt
What do you call a hippo with a carrot in each ear?
— Whatever you want, because he can’t hear you
What do you call a hippo without any eyes?
— A hppo!
How can you get a hippo to do whatever you want?
— Hippo-notism
What do you call a hippo who does the opposite of what he says you should do?
— A hippo-crite
What is as big as a hippo but weighs nothing?
— Its shadow
Why did hippo was taking a rest?
— He had hippo-thermia
What do you call a long-haired hippo?
— A hippy
What do you call a hippo who love to party?
— Hippo-party-mus

Popular Quotes on Hippo

Funny Quotes on Hippo /Hippopotamus

“There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.” — Carl Sandburg
“The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?” — Erma Bombeck
“Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?” — Mitch Hedberg
“Once a month, a woman turns from a beautiful flower into an angry hippopotamus.” — Grace Helbig
“A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem… biting into it!” — Shel Silverstein
“The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.” — Will Cuppy

Wise & Inspirational Quotes on Hippo / Hippopotamus

“When business accepts help from the government, it can be like going to bed with a hippopotamus. It’s nice and warm for the moment, but then your bedmate rolls over and crushes you.” — Donald Rumsfeld
“There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.” — Bertrand Russell
“I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, ‘If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.’ It doesn’t mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.” — Zahi Hawass

Other Popular Quotes on Hippo / Hippopotamus

“I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can’t help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody ever guessed until molecular data was looked at. The closest relatives of whales are hippopotamuses, even closer than any other cloven-hoofed animals.” — Richard Dawkins
“I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.” — Thomas B. Macaulay
“I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.” — Hilaire Belloc

Traditional Proverbs & Sayings on Hippo / Hippopotamus

“If you kill a little hippopotamus, you also kill his mother.” — Bangala proverb
“Where there is a hippopotamus, be careful when passing with a pirogue.” — African Proverb
“Guilt is like the footprint of a hippopotamus.” — Nigerian Proverb
“Darkness conceals the hippopotamus.” — Zulu Proverb
“Hunger pushes the hippopotamus out of the water.” — Luo proverb
“Two hippopotamuses cannot share the same hole.” — Cote d’Ivoire Proverb

List of Hippo Related Days Celebrated Worldwide

Date	Day
15 February	World Hippo Day
8 April	Pygmy Hippo Day

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