Their numbers have gone into sharp decline in the past few years
due to widespread culls of their favourite food, the waltzing goat.
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Medieval goat herders
needed to be vigilant for wild hippos attacking their livestock. This is recorded in some detail in the traditional fairy tale "The Boy Who Cried Hippo"
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Peasants
would grease the walls of their houses to stop the flocks of Roofbusters climbing up the drainpipes, resulting in national shortages of butter and causing the Butter Riots of 1386
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