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The park also features a variety of captive animals such as alligators, black bears, red wolf, Key deer, flamingos, whooping cranes and the oldest hippopotamus in captivity. Gaze down into the depths of the first-magnitude spring and perhaps catch a glimpse of fish and manatees in their natural habitat. A unique underwater structure, the Underwater Observatory allows visitors to "walk underwater" beneath the spring's surface to watch the various fish and manatees swim about. On a 1924 visit, Bruce Hoover of Chicago called it “the most beautiful river and springs in the world.” In this regard, Homosassa Springs hasn’t changed much.Īn astounding number of fresh and saltwater fish still congregate in the natural spring bowl - large jacks, snapper, snook and others. 156.When Homosassa Springs was a popular train stop in the early 1900s, passengers could picnic and take a dip in the spring while train cars were being loaded up with cedar, crabs, fish and spring water. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. "Standing Hippopotamus." In Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, edited by Adela Oppenheim, Dorothea Arnold, Dieter Arnold, and Kei Yamamoto. 3 (Winter), New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p.21, fig. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, new ser., vol. Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. Scepter of Egypt I: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom.

Ancient Egyptian Animals, Picture Books (Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, fig. To experts illuminate this artwork's story The Met republished the story the same year in the Museum’s Bulletin, and the name William caught on! Link to the William 100 Landing Page William the Hippo: Celebrating 100 Years at The Met Link to a #MetKids blog A #MetKids Question for William the Hippo Link to 82nd & Fifth Precaution View more Listen It reports about a family that consults a color print of the Met’s hippo-which it calls "William"-as an oracle. The hippo's modern nickname first appeared in 1931 in a story that was published in the British humor magazine Punch. The hippo was part of Senbi's burial equipment, which included a canopic box (also in the Metropolitan Museum), a coffin, and numerous models of boats and food production. Three of its legs have been restored because they were probably purposely broken to prevent the creature from harming the deceased. This example was one of a pair found in a shaft associated with the tomb chapel of the steward Senbi II at Meir, an Upper Egyptian site about thirty miles south of modern Asyut. As such, the hippopotamus was a force of nature that needed to be propitiated and controlled, both in this life and the next. The beast might also be encountered on the waterways in the journey to the afterlife. The huge creatures were a hazard for small fishing boats and other rivercraft. To the ancient Egyptians, the hippopotamus was one of the most dangerous animals in their world.

The seemingly benign appearance that this figurine presents is deceptive. These river plants depict the marshes in which the animal lived, but at the same time their flowers also symbolize regeneration and rebirth as they close every night and open again in the morning. Beneath the blue glaze, the body was painted with lotuses.

This statuette of a hippopotamus (popularly called "William") was molded in faience, a ceramic material made of ground quartz.