 Hippopotamus madagascariensis

Hippopotamus madagascariensis or Choeropsis/Hexaprotodon madagascariensis is a recently extinct species of Malagasy hippopotamus.Malagasy hippopotamuses were first discovered in the mid-19th century by Alfred Grandidier, who unearthed nearly 50 individual hippos from a dried-up swamp at Ambolisaka near Lake Ihotry, a few miles from the Mozambique Channel.