hippo

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• Lost on the TechCrunch editing floor from late yesterday is a post we wrote noting the sharp declines in the value of insurtech stocks ahead of the impending public debut of Hippo, another neo-insurance company.

• Justin Thomas could play with a hippo as his partner and not draw that many eyeballs.

• Gift shops in nearby Puerto Triunfo sell hippo keychains and T-shirts.

• Now a study forecasts that the invasive hippo population will swell to almost 1,500 individuals by 2040.

• By mimicking some of the behaviors of long-extinct animals like the region’s giant llama, hippos might actually be productive members of Colombian society.

• I'd never heard of a hippo attacking repeatedly like this, but he clearly wanted me dead.

• I swam towards Evans, but the hippo struck again, dragging me back under the surface.

• I called her “Hippo Girl,” and as I berated her I felt negative attention shift from me to her.

• A moment on the noise: the vuvuzela can only be described as a large animal — like a cow or a hippo — in labor.

• From time to time the slave-drivers would jog them along with a few lashes from a four-cornered "hippo" hide kiboko, or whip.

• This city is named from the ancient Hippo, out of whose ruins, a mile to the southward, it was largely built.

• At a villa outside Hippo, St. Augustine passed three years in the company of eleven pious men.

• Later, Harrisson proposed to accompany me as far as the Hippo depot, bringing the dogs and providing a supporting party.

• Here a depot of provisions and spare gear was made, sufficient to take us back to the Hippo.