• ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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      I am having difficulty understanding whether it broke its own cycle and is now crying, or broke someone else’s cycle and is now being intimidating.

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      Presumably the hippo also needs to ride a bike on that stretch, so they probably aren’t managing their full running speed.

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      Probably shit, like most mammals.

      Edit: I looked it up, and they can maintain 29-40km/h charge for about 150m.

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    Technically, hippos don’t swim. They run along the ground. So if you pick a deep enough body of water, you might still have a chance.

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      “If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope he likes enchiladas, because that’s what he’s getting.”

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      There’s no way hippos have the long-distance endurance of humans. Pretty much everything is faster than humans at sprinting, but for endurance running, humans are next level. (Not me of course, I’m not really fit enough to be called human in this context.)

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        No they’re right, they literally just run and jump underwater

        Yet despite all these adaptations for life in the water, hippos can’t swim—they can’t even float! Their bodies are far too dense to float, so they move around by pushing off from the bottom of the river or simply walking along the riverbed in a slow-motion gallop, lightly touching the bottom with their toes, which are slightly webbed, like aquatic ballet dancers.

        https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/hippo

        Honestly that’s scarier to me

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            Yeah, not disputing that, but try to tell them while they’re eating your skull like it’s a watermelon snack

            Edit: I know they’re herbivores. Doesn’t change the facts

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        Man, i actually have in a little riverboat in kenya. It’s absolutely terrifying. There were some other tourists on the boat who treated it like a circus show the hippo did for them. They cheered every time it jumped out of the water getting closer and closer. I was sitting very close to the boat captain, who was sweating bullets.