That is a very tall tree

This is pretty dark at the same time.

As hippos don’t hang around in places where trees lose their leaves in autumn, or don’t even have an autumn in the first place, the world looks quite barren and dead around the hippo.
However, the hippo is so self centred that it doesn’t pay attention to the dieing world around it, instead it only admires it’s own reflection.

A dreadful metaphor to our current world.

Don’t look up.

Here’s a cute blast from the past!

Hugo the Hippo - I Love the Hippo (1975, English full)