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Why can't hippos climb trees?

Australia, 1985
film

Gaye Hamilton, a zoo education officer and Year 11 students from Braybrook High School examine the different structures of animals that enable them to survive..

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Animal behaviour

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A Zoo in the trees. - [2nd ed.]

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A Zoo in the trees

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