Schleich Wild Life Realistic Detailed Hippopotamus Figurine - Wild Hippo Figurine Toy for Play and Education, Highly Durable and Detailed, for Boys and Girls, Gift for Kids Ages 3+

This is a gift for a hippo lover.Realistic and nicely made.Kind of cute but not cutesy.

My favorite Christmas song, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas", prompted me to search out a hippo of my very own this past Christmas. After all, I'm gettin' up there in age and it's now or never. This clever little hippo, except for its tiny size, looks like the real thing and definitely has fulfilled my craving for a hippo of my own. He/She (how do I know the difference?) is realistic-looking, very much so as a matter of fact. Did I mention that it looks real? For the hippo lovers out there, this little guy/gal will definitely fulfill your fantasies of owning a hippo at Christmas time and any other time of the year.....and it looks so real.

Just beautiful, I love it.

Cute and sturdy. Good quality. Bought it for Christmas so my daughter could break put in song! It worked.

Great detail. Excellent!Quick delivery

big and very sturdy, and cute.

It's adorable, sturdy and scientifically accurate.

The figure is wonderfully detailed, accurate and realistic. As a lifelong lover of animals and someone who as a child collected and played, for hours, with animal figures, I'm thrilled that my three-year-old grandson is nuts about them too. He is specifically enthralled by "sea creatures," and I have almost run out of news ones to get for him, but since hippos spend most of their lives in water (albeit rivers and lakes and not seas) they manage to meet the criteria my grandson has created in his mind.As a kid, I would have died for this and the other superb Schleich animal figures and my grandson loves them too. Schleich offers a very wide variety of figures including a lot of rare and obscure species and you and the child in your life can build a very impressive menagerie if you so desire. The only possible drawback to these figures is their cost. I believe their value easily matches or exceeds their prices, but reproducing a 40 piece set of figures of lesser size and quality; that you can purchase for around $15 - $20, will cost you at least 10 times that much if you buy only Schleich figures. Their larger size is, to me, a very big plus but it can make matching them with smaller, cheaper figures a problem for older children who will be more cognizant of the difference. However, they are not so expensive that someone can't afford to collect them over an extended period of time - assuming the child in your life maintains, as I did, his or her fascination with animals for a period of years.As hippos go, this figure is one of the very best available. A word of mild caution: It is made of nearly indestructible plastic and is very rigid. It will not bend and can't be posed in different positions. My grandson doesn't seem to mind, but some kids like "squishier" animal figure...this one is not "squishy."