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  • World Hippo Day 2025 Date and Aim: Know History and Significance of the Day That Highlights the Challenges Faced by Hippos in the Wild

    World Hippo Day 2025 Date and Aim: Know History and Significance of the Day That Highlights the Challenges Faced by Hippos in the Wild

    Every year, World Hippo Day is celebrated across the globe on February 15 to raise awareness about hippopotamuses. The day also highlights the challenges hippos face in the wild and calls for their protection and conservation. Hippos are one of the largest land mammals, native to sub-Saharan Africa. They are famous for their semi-aquatic lifestyle, powerful build, and social behaviour. Despite their bulky appearance, hippos are excellent swimmers and spend most of their time in rivers and lakes to stay cool. This year, World Hippo Day 2025 falls on Saturday, February 15.

    It is said that after elephants and rhinoceroses, the hippopotamus is the next largest land mammal on Earth. They live in rivers, lakes, and mangrove swamps. Despite their physical resemblance to pigs and other terrestrial even-toed ungulates, the closest living relatives of the hippopotamids are cetaceans, i.e. whales, dolphins, porpoises, etc., from which they diverged about 55 million years ago. In this article, let’s know more about World Hippo Day 2025 date and the significance of the annual event. February 2025 Holidays and Festivals Calendar: Get Full List of Major Events in the Second Month of the Year. 

    World Hippo Day 2025 Date

    World Hippo Day 2025 falls on Saturday, February 15.

    World Hippo Day Significance

    World Hippo Day is an important event that highlights the need of conservation of hippos as they are classified as vulnerable due to habitat loss, poaching for their ivory-like teeth, and conflicts with humans. On this day, wildlife organisations around the world come together to raise awareness and educate the public, promote conservation efforts, and encourage sustainable practices that help protect hippos and their ecosystems. World Hippo Day serves as a great medium, to ensure a better future where hippos can thrive in their natural habitats. 

    (The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Feb 14, 2025 11:33 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

  • NBA player Dennis Schroder included in reported major deal after wild ‘modern slavery’ claim

    NBA player Dennis Schroder included in reported major deal after wild ‘modern slavery’ claim

    NBA guard Dennis Schroder was included in a blockbuster trade on Wednesday night that saw Jimmy Butler go from the Miami Heat to the Golden State Warriors, according to multiple reports.

    Schroder will reportedly be moved to the Utah Jazz as part of a multi-team trade that also included the Detroit Pistons. The guard’s inclusion of the deal came after he compared the trade deadline to “modern slavery.”

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    Golden State Warriors guard Dennis Schroder, #71, brings the ball up the court against the Utah Jazz during the first half of an NBA basketball game in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

    He made the eyebrow-raising remarks in an interview with NBC Sports Bay Area, lamenting the lack of the control a player has on where they’re going in such deals.

    “It’s like modern slavery,” he told the network. “It’s modern slavery at the end of the day. Everybody can decide where you’re going, even if you have a contract. Yeah, of course, we make a lot of money and we can feed our families, but at the end of the day if they say, ‘You’re not coming to work tomorrow, you’re going over there,’ they can decide that. They got to change that a little bit.

    “But still grateful that we’re here and that we can live this every single day. I think everybody who’s in here is blessed. But if you really think about it, it is kind of crazy that the organization can tell you, ‘We want you to be team-first, but you’re going over there.’ It’s a lot.”

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    Dennis Schroder goes up for a shot

    Golden State Warriors guard Dennis Schroder, #71, shoots against Utah Jazz forward Brice Sensabaugh, #28, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

    Schroder added that control being out of the players’ hands and left to the NBA owners is something the guard wanted the league to eventually figure out. The veteran was already traded earlier in the season from the Brooklyn Nets to the Warriors. The latest reported trade would be the sixth time he’s been traded in his career.

    Warriors head coach Steve Kerr suggested the trade deadline be moved to the All-Star break as his rotations were thrown off with the trade before their game.

    “I think the league should consider making the trade deadline at the All-Star break just so you don’t have to face these games where guys are getting traded half an hour before a game and you’re trying to process the emotions and trying to win a game,” Kerr said. “I don’t know if it’s possible.”

    Steve Kerr points

    Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr gestures during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

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    The trade deadline is at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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    Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

  • Lakers, Mavericks pull off wild blockbuster as Luka Dončić, Anthony Davis swap teams: reports

    Lakers, Mavericks pull off wild blockbuster as Luka Dončić, Anthony Davis swap teams: reports

    The NBA world was hit with perhaps the craziest trade in a generation in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

    According to multiple reports, the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks came to an agreement to swap Luka Dončić and Anthony Davis as part of a three-team blockbuster deal.

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    The Lakers received Dončić, Maxi Kleber, and Markieff Morris, while the Mavericks took on Davis, Max Christie, and Los Angeles’ 2029 first-round pick.

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    Luka Doncic #77 of the Dallas Mavericks handles the ball against Anthony Davis #3 of the Los Angeles Lakers in the first half of the game at American Airlines Center on February 26, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

    To settle it all out, the Utah Jazz acquired Jalen Hood-Schifino and two second-round picks.

    ESPN’s Shams Charania broke the trade early Sunday morning, and because of the starpower involved, the immediate reaction was that the reporter had been hacked. However, it was later confirmed by multiple other outlets.

    Charania reported that the Mavs approached Los Angeles recently, saying their 25-year-old global superstar was available via trade; Dallas general manager Nico Harrison told ESPN that he was concerned about the team’s defense, which is now massively improved by replacing Dončić with Davis.

    Luka Doncic

    Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic (77) reacts after a play during the first half in Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals against the Boston Celtics, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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    But Dončić is a phenomenon, and a young one at that. The Slovenian led the NBA with 33.4 points per game last season and won’t turn 26 until later this month. In his career, he averages 28.6 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 8.3 assists, putting himself in the MVP conversation every year of his young career.

    It was also reported that LeBron James did not find out about the trade until shortly before the news broke, while he was out to dinner in New York shortly after his Lakers defeated the New York knicks – Davis was ruled inactive for the game.

    Davis, a defensive player of the year candidate last year, is putting up 25.7 points and 11.9 rebounds this season, both slightly better than his career averages of 24.2 and 10.7.

    Anthony Davis talks to the media

    Anthony Davis #3 of the Los Angeles Lakers talks to the media after winning the In-Season Tournament Championship game against the Indiana Pacers  on December 9, 2023 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty Images)

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    The Mavericks lost in the NBA Finals last year, and Dončić received some criticism for his defense and attitude. Perhaps there is more to the story than what’s public right now.

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