"woolly hippopotamus" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1925, Lucretia Thatcher Perry Osborn, Chain of Life, page 163:",
          "text": "Above, the woolly hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Major) of western Europe; below, the southern elephant (Elephas Meridionalis). Remains of both are found in the riverdrifts of France and Spain[…]",
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          "ref": "1956, Marie Hartley, Joan Ingleby, The Yorkshire Dales, page 87:",
          "text": "Here you will find evidence that over the hills of Craven straight-tusked elephant, slender-nosed rhinoceros, woolly hippopotamus, and ox (Bos Primigenius) once roamed, and ended their days in the Victoria cave, a hyena's den, probably during the tropical period of the Great Inter-Glacial period.",
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          "ref": "a. 1985, Fernand Braudel, Roselyne de Ayala, Paule Braudel, Memory and the Mediterranean, published 2001, page 25:",
          "text": "It is true that the \"woolly hippopotamus\", now extinct, was adapted to a cold climate!...In 1960, excavations in Larissa in Thessaly brought to light \"mammoth and hippopotamus bones as well as tools made of flint and bone[…]",
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          "ref": "1992, W. R. Mitchell, Three Peaks and Malhamdale, page 7:",
          "text": "Below these deposits was a thick layer of glacial clay, separating the comparitively modern remains from the bones of pre-Ice Age creatures such as woolly hippopotamus, slender-nosed rhinoceros and straight-tusked elephant, which doubtless roamed the district during the warm inter-glacial period.",
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