Pygmy hippopotamus

Choeropsis liberiensis · Hippopotamidae

The pygmy hippopotamus or pygmy hippo 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. It has been extirpated from Nigeria and possibly Guinea-Bissau.

Where the Pygmy hippopotamus lives

Recorded in Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire (Africa).

Most records fall in Grand Gedeh, Sinoe, Gbapolu, River Gee, Grand Cape Mount and Nimba.

See the Pygmy hippopotamus’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Endangered (EN). In danger of dying out in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 335 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.