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I sent a request email the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma, asking how many bones does their skeleton on display have because I couldn’t find that information anywhere online and if theirs was a complete model. I got a replay back from their Director of Museum Operations & Education confirming that yes their’s was complete and that it was counted to have 219 bones. Thought this might be helpful and here is there information to fact check. Museum Operations & Education SKELETONS: Museum of Osteology 10301 S. Sunnylane Rd. Oklahoma City, OK 73160 TrustynHERO (talk) 21:51, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

That is a useful place to start, but Misplaced Pages requires information to be available in reliable and independent publicastions. Perhaps you could persuade the Director to publish a scientific note on the skeleton of the Hippopotamus that could then be used here as a source? Regretably a conversation even in writing or email is not sufficient and would count as original research. Thanks Velella 22:29, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Change article name to Hippo

I request that the article's name be changed from Hippopotamus to simply just Hippo. 70.50.199.125 (talk) 08:21, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

No. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:10, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Or, at greater length, there is already a redirect of that name so if you search on Hippo you end up at Hippopotamus. Velella 14:50, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

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