Hippo cow

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- Everyone here eats meat, even the meat!

The cow hippo is a very large, meat-eating domesticated animal that is only found in the Fire Nation.

History
The cow hippo was first seen when Sokka, Katara, and Toph visited a butcher shop. Sokka tried to persuade Avatar Aang, who was a vegetarian, to follow along with them, pointing to the beast and stating, "Everyone here eats meat, even the meat!" The Avatar later had a nightmare in which Fire Lord Ozai rode a flying, fire-breathing cow hippo.

Anatomy
The cow hippo has small horns and floppy ears, and is mostly white with irregular black spots on its skin. It has the head and body of a hippopotamus but the horns and coloring of a cow, with short, stubby, hippo-like legs that end in cow-like hooves; cow hippos also have udders just as cows do.

Connection
The cow hippo has the body shape of the real-life hippopotamus. However, the horns, udders, and colors of the cow hippo are that of a Friesian cow. Despite the fact that both of its namesakes are normally herbivorous, the cow hippo eats meat. The hippopotamus is known to scavenge corpses already killed by crocodiles in times of need; the cow hippo is only seen eating the meat of already dead animals, so it is somewhat like the real-life hippo in this regard.