Question: George and Martha is about a pair of animals that are typically native to what area?

George and Martha is a series of children's books written and illustrated by James Marshall between 1972 and 1988.  The books inspired an animated children's television show which comprised 26 episodes made in 1999, and a musical in 2011.  Each book in the series contained a number of short stories describing interactions between two hippos, George and Martha. <SEP> Alaskan Natives have a special connection to the land around them, and a kinship with the animals with whom they share that land.  Before the introduction of western culture and the religions that are now practiced in Alaska, there was a common spiritual connection made with the people to the land they occupied.  The most common name for this connection is shamanism.  Shamanism differs in every culture where it is practiced, in Alaska it is centered in the animals that are common in the area.  Through the use of many myths, stories, and ceremonies these animals are personified and their spirits made tangible and in turn are deeply woven within the Native Alaskan people today.  It was through the shaman that the spirit world was connected to the natural world.  A shaman in Alaskan Native culture was a mediator, healer and the spirit worlds’ mouthpiece.  Although shamanism is no longer popularly practiced, it was and continues, to be the heart of the Native Alaskan people. <SEP>  The name comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse" (ἱπποπόταμος ).  After the elephant and rhinoceros, the common hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal and the heaviest extant artiodactyl.  Despite their physical resemblance to pigs and other terrestrial even-toed ungulates, the closest living relatives of the Hippopotamidae are cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises, etc.) from which they diverged about .  The common ancestor of whales and hippos split from other even-toed ungulates around .  The earliest known hippopotamus fossils, belonging to the genus "Kenyapotamus" in Africa, date to around . The common hippopotamus ("Hippopotamus amphibius"), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous and aggressive mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus ("Choeropsis liberiensis" or "Hexaprotodon liberiensis"). <SEP> Animal Science (also Animal Bioscience) is described as "studying the biology of animals that are under the control of humankind".  Historically, the degree was called animal husbandry and the animals studied were livestock species, like cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry, and horses. Today, courses available now look at a far broader area to include companion animals like dogs and cats, and many exotic species.  Degrees in Animal Science are offered at a number of colleges and universities.  In the United States, the universities offering such a program were Land Grant Universities and include University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Cornell University, UC Davis, Michigan State University, Purdue University, The Ohio State University, The Pennsylvania State University, Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota. In Tanzania the program offered at sokoine university .  Typically, the Animal Science curriculum not only provides a strong science background, but also hands-on experience working with animals on campus-based farms.