Diet Overlap

Kobus ellipsiprymnus (waterbuck)
Hippopotamus amphibius (hippopotamus)

Common Diet

Bothriochloa glabra (tangelhead)
Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon (manienie)
Eragrostis superba (Wilman lovegrass)

Common Habitat

Africa
Angolan Miombo woodlands
Angolan Mopane woodlands
Bamingui-Bangoran Conservation Area
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa
East Sudanian savanna
Eastern Afromontane
Eastern Miombo woodlands
Ethiopian montane forests
Foret Classee de la Mare Aux Hippopotames
Garamba National Park
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
Guinean Forests of West Africa
Guinean montane forests
Horn of Africa
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
Kibale National Park
Kora National Park
Kruger National Park
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve
Lake Chad flooded savanna
Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Nakuru National Park
Lake Victoria Basin
Mahale Mountains National Park
Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
Mkhaya Game Reserve
Nechisar National Park
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
Okavango
Pangani
Parc National de la Benoue
Parc National de la Boucle du Baoule
Parc National de la Comoe
Parc National du Niokolo-Koba
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Radom National Park
Reserve de la Biosphere de la Pendjari
Saharan flooded grasslands
Serengeti volcanic grasslands
Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biosphere Reserve
Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
South Luangwa National Park
Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
Southern Africa bushveld
Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
Southern Eastern Rift
Southern Miombo woodlands
Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages
Tsavo National Park
Upper Zambezi Floodplains
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
West Sudanian savanna
Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
Zambezian coastal flooded savanna
Zambezian flooded grasslands
Zambezian Lowveld

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Seasonal variation in the diets of Bohor reedbuck, waterbuck and wildebeest in a moist dystrophic savanna in Tanzania, Stephanie Halsdorf, Bettina Gutbrodt, Harry Olde Venterink, Werner Suter, Peter J. Edwards, Doctoral Dissertation, ETH ZURICH, 2011
♦ 2C. R. Field (1970) A Study of the Feeding Habits of the Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius Linn.) in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, With Some Management Implications, Zoologica Africana, 5:1, 71-86,
♦ 3The Diet of the Hippopotamus in Ndumu Game Reserve, Natal, as Determined by Faecal Analysis, J.S.B. Scotcher, D.R.M. Stewart, C.M. Breen, S.-Afr. Tydskr. Natuurnavors. 8:1-11 (1978)