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"heep... heep hop... heephopannonymous...? You always give him the easy ones!"
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Those things are like overgrown acquatic hogs. I wonder if they'd taste good comin' out of the smoker
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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. Quote:
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08-27-2012, 12:42 PM | #40 |
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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.
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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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To mark territory, hippos spin their tails while defecating to distribute their excrement over a greater area
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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.
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