Robin Page

How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships

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Why this book counts

  • Life Science
  • Environment & Ecology
  • Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
  • Story / Adventure

How to Clean a Hippopotamus presents animal partnerships as close-up, step-by-step encounters, from a mongoose answering a warthog's signal to ravens following wolves. The playful instruction frame makes readers work out what each partner does and what either animal gains.

The science inside

  • Animals & Zoology
  • Ecosystems

Your child will meet:

  • Symbiosis describes a close relationship between different species living or acting together.
  • An animal partnership can provide food, cleaning, warning, transport, or another survival benefit.
  • Different partnerships distribute benefits differently, so evidence from each pair matters.

Use it this way

Choose the warthog-and-mongoose pair and one other partnership, then draw an arrow from each animal to the benefit it provides. Ask whether both partners benefit in the same way and require a page detail for every arrow rather than assuming all partnerships are identical.

Parent effort: No prep

How to Clean a Hippopotamus , a book about animal symbiosis, offers readers a close-up, step-by-step view of nature's fascinating partnerships. Find out why a mongoose comes running when a warthog lies down, how a crab and an iguana help each other out, why ravens follow wolves, and more. Witness the ingenious lifestyles of some of the world's most unusual animal partners in this book of curious biology, a symbiotic collaboration by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.

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