What do hippos eat?

Hippopotamuses are herbivores.They prefer soft grasses & shrubs growing close to the ground,such as ferns.They also eat some aquatic plants,reeds,leaves & fallen nuts or fruits.Hippo graze during night.In one night,a hippo may consume in excess of 45.5 kg (100 lbs)of grass.They come out of the water at night to grass & return to water by day.Their faeces provide an important source of food for fish that share the water with them.
Hippopotamuses have been known to eat cultivated crops such as sugar cane & corn.Depite some reports of hippos eating meat & even carrion,the stomach of hippopotamus is not suitable to feeding on meat (meat eating is not preferable for hippos).Carnivorous habits are not the norm,but rather,the exception.