Hippos generally remain submerged in water during the day. Mating and childbirth both happen in water.
Hippos are large creatures, generally weighing over 3000 pounds. But do not take the bulkiness to mean they are slow moving and timid - Hippos can easily outrun a human, they are known to clock up to 30kmph. They are also one of the most aggressive creatures in the world and can get into nasty fights with fellow Hippos.
However, their mating games are sublime. Males attract females by defecating or urinating to mark their territory. The pair circle each other, bring their mouths together, bellow and grunt, and tussle and tumble their bulky bodies frothing and splashing the water all around them.
Every now and then - the grunt!
To: JoeProBono
NO.... oh ... whew!
Some things people just should not witness. heh.
2 posted on
04/30/2010 6:34:04 AM PDT by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: JoeProBono
3 posted on
04/30/2010 6:36:44 AM PDT by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: JoeProBono
Not another Hitler thread....
5 posted on
04/30/2010 6:37:39 AM PDT by
deadrock
(Liberty is a bitch that needs to be bedded on a mattress of cadavers.)
To: JoeProBono
Not another Hitlery thread....
6 posted on
04/30/2010 6:37:53 AM PDT by
deadrock
(Liberty is a bitch that needs to be bedded on a mattress of cadavers.)
To: JoeProBono
9 posted on
04/30/2010 6:45:02 AM PDT by
Jonah Hex
("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
To: JoeProBono
Hillary has packed on a few more, eh?
11 posted on
04/30/2010 6:49:11 AM PDT by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: JoeProBono
This is the type of stuff you see when the SEC web filter now will only allow inoffensive websites like nature pictures.
12 posted on
04/30/2010 6:58:11 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's "A Modest Proposal")
To: JoeProBono
OMG!!
Who took the pictures of my husband and I skinny dipping!!!
Just joking, we’re not quite that large, yet anyway =8-p
13 posted on
04/30/2010 6:58:12 AM PDT by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: JoeProBono
When hippos go kinky.........
16 posted on
04/30/2010 7:39:26 AM PDT by
OB1kNOb
(When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson)
To: JoeProBono
I reckon Rosie O’Donnel does it something like that!
22 posted on
04/30/2010 9:36:25 AM PDT by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
To: JoeProBono
26 posted on
04/30/2010 10:11:23 AM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(The hysteria of Matthewsism and Andersonism has led to a Tea Party Scare that is unAmerican.)
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