Hippopotamuses or Hippo rap

Statuette of a Hippopotamus, Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, approximately 2,000 years old

 

This story is very old

how old? Who knows?

It's about those Hippos

who, at one time, with their large mouth and teeth

devoured all the fish they could eat.

 Then a voice spoke from nowhere:

 "Friends, from now on you'll eat greens

and go ashore to defecate

so we can see if they'll be fish bones

from any fish you ate.

We need to prevent you from depleting 

all the fish you devour and may be  eating".

 That's how to this day

those colossal Hippos

only eat greens and hay.

Henri van Bentum