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Here's Why Hippos Are More Dangerous Than You Thought
Grunge.com ^
| 9/1/20
| Nick Vrchoticky
Posted on 06/03/2024 10:11:04 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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The Hippopotamus, or "water horse," as the Greeks called it, is the third-largest land mammal in the world. They're kind of cute and kind of funny-looking, and they use that cuteness to hide just how murderous they can be. Seeing as the animal weighs between 3,000-9,000 pounds on average, according to Live Science, and can move about in the water better than most other land mammals (though they can't swim), it's easy to see why you should be absolutely terrified of this hungry-hungry animal.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: hippo; rino
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Well I guess, this is where this game in the 70's got it's inspriration.
To: DallasBiff
The most dangerous mammal in Africa after humans.
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:14:05 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
I thought the title said ‘hippies’. Still would have been accurate.
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:17:06 AM PDT
by
Right Brother
(Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic.)
To: Right Brother
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:17:56 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DallasBiff
No comment from Stacy Abrams...
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:18:38 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: packagingguy
The most dangerous mammal in Africa after humans.In America, the common ghettopotamus is the beast to steer clear of...
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:21:55 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: DallasBiff
"Here's Why Hippos Are More Dangerous Than You Thought"
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:22:59 AM PDT
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
To: DallasBiff
To: DallasBiff
I always steer clear of hippos. Seriously, though, here in the northwest we recently had an elephant roaming the streets (Butte, Montana) and zebras running loose east of Seattle.
To: DallasBiff
“Don’t go where they live: mainly sub-Saharan Africa.”
I’d be happy to follow that advice even if hippos lived in France...
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:27:29 AM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
To: DallasBiff
I always thought that pound for pound hippos are the most dangerous animal.
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:31:10 AM PDT
by
SACK UP
To: DallasBiff
So then looking at both of your posts, the danger ranking would be Hippo > Moose >Bear?
To: SACK UP
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:38:39 AM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: DallasBiff
The stuff of nightmares....
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:39:12 AM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: Nervous Tick
I’d never heard that term and now I can’t stop laughing.
To: DallasBiff
Most people are surprised to learn that the closest living relative of the hippopotamus is the whale.
They are insanely protective of their territory and can literally chop a full grown crocodile in half with one giant bite.
In Africa, they are (or used to be) the number one most dangerous land animal for human beings.
Hippos forage on land at night time. If humans get between them and the water, hippos will often charge - and crush - them.
Farmers trying to protect their crops are at special risk.
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:39:46 AM PDT
by
zeestephen
(Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
To: SACK UP
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posted on
06/03/2024 10:41:06 AM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: SACK UP
There was a great scene in “Narcos Mexico” where Felix meets Pablo Escobar. Felix is very nervous because he has heard that Pablo sometimes feeds his enemies to his hippos.
Pablo responds that he would not have done that because his hippos hate Mexicans too.
To: gundog
I was thinking pound for pound it would be:
The Chihuahua
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