How do Hippos run so fast? Is there any way to kill them in self defence if you encounter them in the wild? Is it possible to reason with them? Why is an animal that looks like a grey marshmallow on legs such nightmare fuel?
Why are hippos so OP?
How do Hippos run so fast? Is there any way to kill them in self defence if you encounter them in the wild? Is it possible to reason with them? Why is an animal that looks like a grey marshmallow on legs such nightmare fuel?
TOTAL HIGGER DEATH
the hippo in that picture died after the lions severed it's spine and ate it alive
because they evolved around crocs which never evolved at all the entire time hippos evolved. Imagine living around an apex species your entire existence and it remains that way and all you do is develop traits to make sure you don't get ganked by it (they still do occasionally too)
>(they still do occasionally too)
Not as much as the opposite happens lmao
cute 20-month gestation for 1 baby that I will probably eat and then shit out 100 hatchlings whenever I want lmao
Why is the hippo not murdering and eating the lions? Did they grow up together or something?
>Why is an animal that looks like a grey marshmallow on legs such nightmare fuel
That gray marshmallow is a massive slab of muscles; think professional weightlifter combined with Olympic level sprinter and crank it up to eleven. on top of that, they're intensely aggressive, so give that weightlifter/sprinter a cranked-up-to-11 case of roid rage to match.
>Is there any way to kill them in self defence
High caliber firearms, excellent aim, and nerves of ice-cold steel while the beast is charging at you, intent on ripping you to bits.
>Is it possible to reason with them?
kek
It hasn't noticed them yet.
wild animals try to avoid getting injured because that usually means certain death. it's not worth it to go heads up with them
That would've made sense for literally any other animal, but not for satan's own spawn that is the hippo. They put murder first and any other consideration a distant second.
The odds of you killing one in self defense without specific calibre weapons are basically zero, and that's assuming you don't just panic and try to run.
They have to be strong to successfully compete with other hippos and for an animal that fricking huge that means they are going to easily mog the frick out of smaller animals by default and they have the temperament to match. Africa is also the last remaining true megafauna dominated environment and so animals are selected for aggression and ability to survive confrontations (compared to most of the rest of the world where the primary selective pressure is ability to evade human attention or cohabitate with them). They just look kinda silly because of their adaptations to a semi-aquatic lifestyle. Most big animals look fricking goofy anyway, giraffes, elephants, moose, rhinos, camels - horses, bison, and buffalo just seem more normal to us because of our familiarity with their domesticated versions.
This makes me think that the early terrestrial proto-cetaceans weren't lithe and skinny as depicted in most modern reconstructions, but were actually morbidly obese like the hippos instead. They should've had the same adaptations, right? And the modern whales certainly do look like they might've evolved from something that looked like a hippo.
hippos aren't really fat their body weight is mostly muscle
they're just really bulky tank like creatures
that's why they're so dangerous
>Cow but bigger with tougher hide and horns in its mouth instead of on head
Is it really so unbelievable? Rhinos would steamroll 1v1 though. Even tougher hide, and that horn is a dagger.
Rhinos are multiple times heavier. It wouldn't be much of a serious competition.
These get ragdolled by elephants
Post videos of elephants fighting hippos
The weak should fear the strong
Poor widdle hippos scrambling on top of each other to escape
Why did he do it? Why did he march in to this orgy of hippos? Just to frick with them?
unironically yes.
African elphants are highly inteligent and can be very aggressive and moody.
The more intelligent an animal is the higher it's capacity for sadism as a form of entertainment.
Monkeys will cause trouble and attack other creatures for attention, Dolphins bully sharks for fun, and elephants will push around animals (and sometimes cars) that are just smaller than them for kicks without any provocation.
Everything gets rag dolled by elephants
>Rhinos would steamroll 1v1 though.
Would they really? Seems like it would be pretty even