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I learned some stuff about hippos today (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=262895)

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Originally Posted by blaise (Post 8856391)

Hippos will kill other hippos, too. I've seen video where a juvenile comes to close to an adult male and he just grabs it in his mouth and shakes it all around until it dies.

That's what happens when you **** with the uhhh HIPPO BAUUUUUUCE!!!!

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Originally Posted by Bewbies (Post 8856047)

This is better...

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jSZgkFtV-Ao" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

ROFL

But from the couple other comments I have read. Yeah watch out because they will eat you.

"heep... heep hop... heephopannonymous...? You always give him the easy ones!"

Those things are like overgrown acquatic hogs. I wonder if they'd taste good comin' out of the smoker:hmmm:

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Originally Posted by philfree (Post 8856474)

Those things are like overgrown acquatic hogs. I wonder if they'd taste good comin' out of the smoker:hmmm:

I don't know. People apparently eat them though.

http://www.arkive.org/media/D4/D48C6...ed-carcass.jpg

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Originally Posted by Big Smoke (Post 8856417)

ROFL

But from the couple other comments I have read. Yeah watch out because they will eat you.

I'm not going anywhere I'm not considered the zenith of the food chain...

Would you believe they can also easily outrun humans?

Also interesting is "Hippo sweat"...

Hippos also sweat a special red secretion, that happens to be the best "sunscreen" in the world. And on top of being better sunscreen than what chemists can create, it also happens to be naturally antiseptic, and an insect repellent.

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/2808/hippo0837.jpg

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Hippos can stand in the hot sun all day without getting a sunburn, and now researchers know why: a red-colored glandular secretion known as "hippo sweat" contains microscopic structures that scatter light, protecting the hefty mammals from burns, according to a new study.

In the future, scientists hope to create a product inspired by hippo sweat that we may be slathering on our bodies before long. The stuff could be an advertiser's dream.
"It would be nice to also try and replicate the antiseptic and insect-repellent characteristics of the sweat, to obtain a four-in-one product: sunscreen, sunblock, antiseptic, insect repellent," co-author Christopher Viney told Discovery News.

Microscopic analysis of the sweat revealed that it contained two types of liquid crystalline structures: banded and non-banded. Viney explained that the banded structures are "characterized by concentric dark rings" when viewed under certain magnification.
"The rings are the result of a structural periodicity that occurs on a scale comparable to the wavelengths of visible light," he said. "This means that the sweat is an effective scatterer of light, so that it combines both sun-blocking and sun-screening properties."

The sweat's unusual red coloring is due to red and orange pigments present in the secretion. Prior research demonstrated that molecules in these pigments are capable of absorbing ultraviolet light.

Watching those videos reminded me of this gem:

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...phantinmud.jpg

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Originally Posted by KC Fish (Post 8856507)

Interesting info. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by WV (Post 8856312)

Funny that two of the more docile looking animals are the most dangerous. The Hippo and the Cape Buffalo.

People tend to underestimate hippos also because they have the proportions of a baby - big head, short limbs, fat belly - and that makes us think (on some primeval level) that they are as harmless as one. That is, of course, according to an article I read years ago, but it makes sense to me.

When I was in Africa, we went to an estuary that had a bunch of hippos. The interesting thing that I learned is that they don't swim. When they move in a river, they sink down to the bottom and do a "leap and glide" that seems pretty efficient. When we saw a hippo moving, we could trace its path because every 50 feet or so there would be a small muddy patch in the water where the hippo had kicked off the bottom.

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Originally Posted by KC Fish (Post 8856507)

I looked at the picture before i read what you typed. I literally had no idea wtf i was looking at. I thought it was a bloody guy with his arm ripped off and pus draining.

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Originally Posted by DMAC (Post 8856516)

Watching those videos reminded me of this gem:

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l2...phantinmud.jpg

That was an awesome thread.

To mark territory, hippos spin their tails while defecating to distribute their excrement over a greater area

meh. I do that and I don't even have a tail.

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Originally Posted by tooge (Post 8857013)

To mark territory, hippos spin their tails while defecating to distribute their excrement over a greater area

meh. I do that and I don't even have a tail.

You use your finger or what?

On "An Idiot Abroad", Ricky Gervais had Karl Pilkington stay in a home where they had a pet hippo. Damned thing walked around the house like a dog.