Close, and I know what you mean, but it's Tasmania, home of the Tasmanian Devil.
A little over an hour ago I was watching a documentary on TV about hippos and they talked about the special communication sounds that hippos emit from their nostrils, including hippo nasal sighs...now there's another coincidental surprise! I didn't know that hippos are most closely related to whales...very closely, in fact. They used the analogy of humans are to apes as whales are to hippos. They said that hippos are the only animal on earth that can communicate both above and below water. But I don't know about that, since I recall seeing those alligators vibrating their throats to transmit sounds through the water and this also transmits sound through the air which, to me, seems like it effects other alligators nearby on land.
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