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soni1770
November 20th, 2009, 03:36 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/nov/17/hippopotamus-crocodile-wildlife-tanzania?picture=355692095


:popcorn:
forrestcupp
November 20th, 2009, 03:46 PM
Dang!
Excedio
November 20th, 2009, 03:47 PM
Thems animals are mean SOB's!
bruno9779
November 20th, 2009, 03:48 PM
Hippos even eat their offspring, if they have too many.

Scary aggressive mountains of meat they are indeed.

And they can outrun a human too
zagz
November 20th, 2009, 03:49 PM
Reminds me of someone I know.
Excedio
November 20th, 2009, 03:51 PM
Reminds me of someone I know.

You know someone that can bite a gator/croc in half? Sweet...
Simian Man
November 20th, 2009, 04:01 PM
I read that hippos kill more people each year than any other large animal apart from other humans.
emigrant
November 20th, 2009, 04:03 PM
Hippos even eat their offspring, if they have too many.


Cats too
emigrant
November 20th, 2009, 04:06 PM
I read that hippos kill more people each year than any other large animal apart from other humans.

I think they arf second to elephants. Atleast in asia.
soni1770
November 20th, 2009, 04:22 PM
bet that croc though he was smart,
for about 1 second.

and to think, those hippos look so cuddly.
bruno9779
November 20th, 2009, 05:17 PM
Cats too

Male cats kill their offsprings, thats one of the reasons why female cats give birth away from any other cat.

on top of that, hippos gulp down their little ones without even chewing...
m0ntels
November 20th, 2009, 05:27 PM
Me and the wifey are big hippo fans. I got us behind the scenes once, and the hippo pen looked like a setup from Jurassic Park. Everything was remotely controlled gates of 4 inch square tube steel. The crates for transporting them pretty much looked like the raptor one from the beginning of the movie.

They have a sleep schedule pretty much like a cat and many of the incidents of them killing people results from them getting bumped into while they nap underwater. They can run at about 30 mph and keep it up for about 100 yards too. They're extremely territorial, and the zoo had to remove the ground nesting birds from the hippo area to keep the hippos from killing them.

With all that said, they are very cute in an odd way, and can be very playful. They aren't currently endangered, but being as they don't play well with humans, who knows how much longer they'll be around, so if you get a chance to see some, you should.
mmix
November 20th, 2009, 05:30 PM
dude, that hippo just trying to protect her offspring.