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08-27-2012, 01:00 PM | #2 |
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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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I learned some stuff about hippos today
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08-27-2012, 01:57 PM | #5 |
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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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08-27-2012, 10:53 PM | #6 |
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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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It really is a show [2 limited run series as yet, 6-8 episodes each] made for CPers, a homebody with a blunt amusing take on the world, 'forced' by Gervais and Merchant to expand his horizons. They send him all over the world to see the beauty and the squalor in it all. He strapped as a wing walker on a biplane had me pissing my pants in laughter. It's probably even better if you're acquainted with Karl through Gervais' podcast, which was turned into an HBO animated series, because his lines of reasoning were just begging for animation
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08-28-2012, 12:32 AM | #13 |
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Hippo vs. Rhino.
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08-28-2012, 12:48 AM | #14 |
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Back in the day when the Roman Coliseum was the place to see and be seen those Romans would put everything from lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, hippos and rhinos in the ring with the Gladiators.
Could you imagine the poor sap going against any one of them? Take your pick, doesn't matter much, your time on earth will be measured in seconds now. Not days and years. My goodness that would be brutal. |
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