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To: IndyTiger

While I agree they are ferocious, they are not predators, they are herbivore.


12 posted on 11/15/2011 1:50:02 PM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: MPJackal
While I agree they are ferocious, they are not predators, they are herbivore.

I was going to say the same thing. On rare occasions, hippos have been observed eating meat but I believe it was usually a scavenged carcass and not something killed by the hippo.

16 posted on 11/15/2011 2:10:37 PM PST by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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