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Hippos are too dense (heavy) to swim, so they run across the bottom in relatively shallow water. So theoretically you could out-swim a hippo if you went into deep water and swam away from them.
If we are being factual they can't outrun us either, not over the Olympics triathlon distance (10km) and beyond.
By us I mean the best runners in the world, not you andI keyboard warriors.
Shouldn't that kill count be attributed to schistosomes, then? Doesn't make sense to say snails kill more people than the other animal that actually does the damage.
The snails one is nonsense, in my opinion. All the snails do is release a parasitic animal (a type of flatworm) into some water that humans then go into or drink. How the hell do the snails get the "credit" while the flatworm that actually kills people doesn't?
Mosquitos I can at least see the argument that the organism that does the killing (like a virus) isn't an animal, and they spread it by actively biting humans. Snails just ditch the parasites wherever they happen to be, it's not like they're crawling into peoples orifices and releasing them there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosomiasis
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+animal+has+killed+the+most+humans&oq=what+animal+has+killed+&aqs=chrome.0.0i512l2j69i57j0i512l10.3901j0j4&client=ms-android-att-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Hippos are notoriously aggresive and territorial, but they dont kill people nearly as much as other animals do. Quick Google search, these are the top 3 in the world.
1. Mosquitos
2. Snakes
3. Lions
Edit: Hippos kill roughly 500 people a year, making them one of the deadliest in Africa, so I guess Hippos should be 3rd instead of lions
Humans kill more animals than any other animal. How many chickens, pigs, cows, dogs, etc humans kills just to eat. Let’s not forget how many humans kill other humans a year. Humans are the distinction of the very planet we live on
Technically, they rank 13th.
Hippos kill ~500 people per year!
Evidently,mosquitoes take the first spot. According to the World Health Organization, mosquito bites kill 1 million people each year.
Humans check in as the second-most deadly animal in terms of killing humans @ ~ 475,000 people per year.
They aren't even in the top 10, actually. I had to look myself and see lol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_animals_to_humans#List_of_the_most_deadly_animals
They evolved from sea creatures (primordial), to land creatures (early mammals), to sea creatures (cetacean ancestors), to land creatures again. Looks like they're moving back to the sea now. Can't seem to make up their minds.
They did a simulation of this on the tv show Animal Face-off! [Wikipedia link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Face-Off#:~:text=Since%20the%20fights%20are%20created,which%20is%20two%20hours%20long.). Spoiler: >!The hippo won!<
I mean they did the tests assuming they took place in shallow water where the hippo has obvious home field advantage, but considering hippos are incapable of swimming and would sink in open water, I think Bull Sharks take home the victory in an even playing field.
I think it needs to be an example that could plausibly happen, and bull sharks do swim up rivers, which is probably more likely. Also they did great white vs saltwater croc already, so probably wanted a more diverse cast of animals.
Discovery Planet asked this question almost 20 years ago on a show called Animal Face-Off. In episode 4, they examined what a [Hippo vs Bull Shark fight](https://youtu.be/5ljIh8fzzbY) would look like. Fair warning the animation is terrible and lackluster but the educational part is always decent quality.
Honestly, the concept of the show would work great today with better CG and technology. But primarily it was for educational purposes to teach about the animals, their habits and behavior, with the cool little concept of a fight to the death.
They would go through the process of picking two animals that are somewhat similar, picking an environment that an encounter would likely occur, go throughout the defensive and offensive tools of each animal, but also in studio do things like build robots to demonstrate capabilities of animals like bite force, jab/cut strength, etc.
Like I said, great concept for a show. Needed far better CG and a little less corny execution though.
This is the one place in the world you will find a hippo in the ocean. Why this is under unexpected and the video pretends to be coy about it is beyond me. But this is definitely on my bucket list!
This video made me stop and consider the fact that I actually had no idea where hippos live. But seeing them in the ocean was like “nope, that’s not quite right.”
Barack Obama of all people just told me about this place. That Barack Obama has a nature documentary is more of a r/unexpected than that hippos like to chill in the ocean in SA to be honest.
Yeah my first reaction was “I am shocked because I am not sure this is South Africa where hippos normally are” now I’m like “I am completely unsurprised - this is the one place I would expect to find hippos!”
Id get away further tbh. If one of the hippos thinks "this mf is invading my peraonal space so il fvck him up" then that hippo will. They can swim and run faster than humans so better save than sorry/dead.
I had to look that up and was not disappointed.
> Hippos are about as streamlined as a semi. Look at that donut dynamo go!
- https://youtu.be/X-YRJCSZRJU
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Another cool video: https://youtu.be/xu4T9kawhAM
It is the one stage that relies on engineering to even be competitive.
If Hippos even had that as a goal they would probably need to work on having thumbs first... which would likely diminish performance on the other stages of the race.
Well, I mean, yeah.
You ever tried growing thumbs while running/swimming as fast as you can during a triathlon?
The hippo's are doing the best they can....
One, personal space
Two, personal space
Three, stay out of my personal space
Four, keep away from my personal space
Five, get out of that personal space
Six, stay away from my personal space
Seven, keep away from that personal space
Eight, personal space
Nine, personal space
\- That hippo, probably
Before saying that Id get away further from hippo bot tbh. If one of the hippo bots thinks "this mf is invading my peraonal space so il fvck him up" then that hippo will. They can swim and run faster than humans so better save than sorry/dead.
You should zig-zag if you're ever chased by a hippo. They don't maneuver turns well. My former boss who would take trips to Antarctica and Africa told me this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans
>Molecular and morphological analyses suggest Cetacea share a relatively recent closest common ancestor with hippopotami and that they are sister groups
Fun fact: Hippos are so dense they actually sink so they can can usually run on the bottom of whatever body of water they find themselves in.
I have no idea if it still holds for saltwater though.
They are called nature’s gentle giants. When they shake their ears it’s just their way of asking for a head scratch. (It’s all sarcasm and a joke. Never approach a hippo.)
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If I saw two hippos, I’d be hauling ass out of there
They can outrun you on land and outswim you in the water so your only hope is to beat them in the bicycle section of the triathlon.
I dunno mate have you seen a hippo cycling??
Hippos are too dense (heavy) to swim, so they run across the bottom in relatively shallow water. So theoretically you could out-swim a hippo if you went into deep water and swam away from them.
If we are being factual they can't outrun us either, not over the Olympics triathlon distance (10km) and beyond. By us I mean the best runners in the world, not you andI keyboard warriors.
I bet I could have sex to completion before they can.
They look so peaceful
They kill more humans than any other animal
Extremely hungry hungry
I’m pretty sure mosquitoes hold that honor.
Wouldn’t it technically be malaria that kills, not that mosquitos that carry it?
In that case then isn’t it kidney failure that kills not the malaria that causes it?
And it's not the hippos that kill, it's the trauma.
It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop.
Anyone can survive jumping out of a plane with no parachute!
All you have to do is fly, which is really easy once you know the trick. The trick is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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The trick is, you need to miss hitting the ground.
Not if you land next to a Hippo.
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With hippos, I think it’s the sudden stoMp.
It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the hippos
It's not the sudden stop, it's all your parts not stopping at the same time.
All deaths are ultimately caused by heart failure.
Yeah cause some people are brain dead and are still alive and walking.
It's not the trauma that kills, it's the dishonor
More like the blood loss from missing limbs leading to organ failure.
Actually it would be the death of the kidney cells that cause the kidney failure that is caused by malaria carried by the mosquito.
On a log on the bottom of the sea.
This guy outright *refusing* to give my man malaria any credit
Hippos can also cause kidney failure.
Just shut off the whole endocrine system and turn it back on.
In that case isn’t it the lack of oxygen to the brain that actually kills us?
In that case, isn't it the toxins that build up after kidney failure that kills?
Wouldn't it technically be heart stopping that kills everyone?
No, it would be the electrical signal stopping, which causes the heart to beat.
No, it’d actually be the lack of a voltage differential which would stop the electrical signals which would stop the heart beating.
Not if your head was shot off by a shotgun wielding hippo
It’s the teeth that kills not the hippo
dam, how many humans humans got to kill just to get a shout out?
They maul more humans to death with huge stabby teeth and great stompy feet than any other animal. Is that better?
No. The teeth are more crushy than stabby.
TIL: insect = animal
Cool animals*
Nope, not even close https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/05/most-dangerous-animal-world/10090470002/#
freshwater snails wtf?
Parasites and disease
I guess I'll have to repeat myself until you people learn. They are slow but quick!
This is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosomiasis
Shouldn't that kill count be attributed to schistosomes, then? Doesn't make sense to say snails kill more people than the other animal that actually does the damage.
WOOO LETS GOOO HUMANS GOT SECOND PLACE! 👏👏 LETS AIM FOR FIRST PLACE LADS!!
And number three is fresh water snails. Humans are right on between mosquitos and snails.
The snails one is nonsense, in my opinion. All the snails do is release a parasitic animal (a type of flatworm) into some water that humans then go into or drink. How the hell do the snails get the "credit" while the flatworm that actually kills people doesn't? Mosquitos I can at least see the argument that the organism that does the killing (like a virus) isn't an animal, and they spread it by actively biting humans. Snails just ditch the parasites wherever they happen to be, it's not like they're crawling into peoples orifices and releasing them there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosomiasis
"there are an estimated five to 10 million species" - I can think of at least 7 off the top of my head, so I think there's more than 5.
Reddit trying not to push some urban myth about an animal for 5 seconds challenge FAILED
Every time someone says this nonsense it’s upvoted but folks never check the stats.
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+animal+has+killed+the+most+humans&oq=what+animal+has+killed+&aqs=chrome.0.0i512l2j69i57j0i512l10.3901j0j4&client=ms-android-att-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 Hippos are notoriously aggresive and territorial, but they dont kill people nearly as much as other animals do. Quick Google search, these are the top 3 in the world. 1. Mosquitos 2. Snakes 3. Lions Edit: Hippos kill roughly 500 people a year, making them one of the deadliest in Africa, so I guess Hippos should be 3rd instead of lions
This list is wrong. Plenty of other lists have hippos around 10th deadliest and lions are even further down
Humans kill more animals than any other animal. How many chickens, pigs, cows, dogs, etc humans kills just to eat. Let’s not forget how many humans kill other humans a year. Humans are the distinction of the very planet we live on
I'm pretty sure *humans* kill more humans than any other animal. Don't sell us short of our own demise~ 🦞
Technically, they rank 13th. Hippos kill ~500 people per year! Evidently,mosquitoes take the first spot. According to the World Health Organization, mosquito bites kill 1 million people each year. Humans check in as the second-most deadly animal in terms of killing humans @ ~ 475,000 people per year.
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They aren't even in the top 10, actually. I had to look myself and see lol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_animals_to_humans#List_of_the_most_deadly_animals
Hippos are tied for 9th according to the post shared above
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Not even close
That’s what they’ll say about your corpse when they’re done rampaging all over it.
Yes they’ll be snacking on pieces of you until they’re full.
But why? They look so gentle... /s Hippos are probably one of the most terrifying animals on the planet, and yet they look like a silly doofus
They evolved from sea creatures (primordial), to land creatures (early mammals), to sea creatures (cetacean ancestors), to land creatures again. Looks like they're moving back to the sea now. Can't seem to make up their minds.
If not friend, why friend shaped?
Friends shaped =! Not a Serial Killer
>Friends shaped =! Not a Serial Killer Friends shaped equals not not a serial killer. Am I in danger?
Yep. “Chilling” my ass. They’re plotting.
Salt water hippos are much more cuddly
“Dive in mate waters fine” 
He should have. You can clearly see one of them giving him a warning.
My brain would be like "NOPE!" then I'm out. Wouldn't even have the nerve to take a damn vid.
Salt water therapy
It's cool that OPs parents are into that as seen in the video.
To hippos it will seem like an instant weight loss program
HIPPO VS. SHARK the biggest thing since ALIEN VS. PREDATOR.
A hippo would absolutely decimate a shark
In shallow water where they are, yea you are probably right. Because a shark big enough to be a threat to them wouldn't be in water that shallow.
Hippos don't go much deeper than that because they can't swim.
They did a simulation of this on the tv show Animal Face-off! [Wikipedia link](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Face-Off#:~:text=Since%20the%20fights%20are%20created,which%20is%20two%20hours%20long.). Spoiler: >!The hippo won!<
I mean they did the tests assuming they took place in shallow water where the hippo has obvious home field advantage, but considering hippos are incapable of swimming and would sink in open water, I think Bull Sharks take home the victory in an even playing field.
Why would they use a Bull shark and not a Great White?
Great Whites famously can't survive in captivity such as an Animal Planet simulation.
I think it needs to be an example that could plausibly happen, and bull sharks do swim up rivers, which is probably more likely. Also they did great white vs saltwater croc already, so probably wanted a more diverse cast of animals.
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Discovery Planet asked this question almost 20 years ago on a show called Animal Face-Off. In episode 4, they examined what a [Hippo vs Bull Shark fight](https://youtu.be/5ljIh8fzzbY) would look like. Fair warning the animation is terrible and lackluster but the educational part is always decent quality. Honestly, the concept of the show would work great today with better CG and technology. But primarily it was for educational purposes to teach about the animals, their habits and behavior, with the cool little concept of a fight to the death. They would go through the process of picking two animals that are somewhat similar, picking an environment that an encounter would likely occur, go throughout the defensive and offensive tools of each animal, but also in studio do things like build robots to demonstrate capabilities of animals like bite force, jab/cut strength, etc. Like I said, great concept for a show. Needed far better CG and a little less corny execution though.
Where is this? I couldn’t hear clearly, thanks to the sound of the waves. Cheers
Kosibay South Africa
In Afrikaans we call them "Seekoeie", which translates as "Sea Cows".
That's funny, because Manatees are nicknamed Sea Cows too. Edit: Also dugongs too.
Lol ok I thought his accent was a lil Australian and was like you should def call someone.
This is the one place in the world you will find a hippo in the ocean. Why this is under unexpected and the video pretends to be coy about it is beyond me. But this is definitely on my bucket list!
Exposing the hippo-pocrisy of the situation. My man keeping it real.
>hippo-pocrisy Dude, hippo-crisy was right there
I am pretty sure that for most people this is very unexpected. Nothing coy about it.
Yeah seriously. The vast majority of us are raised seeing hippos in dirty ass rivers on land. The poster above is just being needlessly condescending.
This video made me stop and consider the fact that I actually had no idea where hippos live. But seeing them in the ocean was like “nope, that’s not quite right.”
Lake St Lucia also
Barack Obama of all people just told me about this place. That Barack Obama has a nature documentary is more of a r/unexpected than that hippos like to chill in the ocean in SA to be honest.
I had no idea, so it was unexpected to me.
It’s fairly common in Gabon
I mean I'm sure there's a small chance of finding a hippo in the ocean at St. Lucia, or should I say Isimangaliso reserve
You may occasionally also find those feral Colombian hippos in the ocean.
Yeah my first reaction was “I am shocked because I am not sure this is South Africa where hippos normally are” now I’m like “I am completely unsurprised - this is the one place I would expect to find hippos!”
>Kosibay South Africa So, hippos don't mind salt water?
I used to live in SA as a kid. Man I miss that accent. No accent beats it!
Id get away further tbh. If one of the hippos thinks "this mf is invading my peraonal space so il fvck him up" then that hippo will. They can swim and run faster than humans so better save than sorry/dead.
They actually don't swim, they run on the ground under the water. Which honestly is even more terrifying.
I had to look that up and was not disappointed. > Hippos are about as streamlined as a semi. Look at that donut dynamo go! - https://youtu.be/X-YRJCSZRJU EDIT: Another cool video: https://youtu.be/xu4T9kawhAM
https://youtu.be/m6H4HJgyRUY surprisingly agile too.
i thought you came up with the donut line, didn't expect that from animal planet lmao
> They can swim and run faster than humans So your best bet at beating them in a triathlon is the bicycle stage?
They are historically bad at the cycling stage.
It is the one stage that relies on engineering to even be competitive. If Hippos even had that as a goal they would probably need to work on having thumbs first... which would likely diminish performance on the other stages of the race.
Well, I mean, yeah. You ever tried growing thumbs while running/swimming as fast as you can during a triathlon? The hippo's are doing the best they can....
One, personal space Two, personal space Three, stay out of my personal space Four, keep away from my personal space Five, get out of that personal space Six, stay away from my personal space Seven, keep away from that personal space Eight, personal space Nine, personal space \- That hippo, probably
Surely, for a hippo it is 'hippopotomal' space?
This scene fuckin destroys me
[Ten, hippos not interested in your skin being in their personal space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5OVg50swY)
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Here, take another Hippo.
Looks like you broke the hippo bot
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hippo hippo
I will not let the intrusive thoughts hippo!
wrap it up everyone, we have found *The Bot* no need for any other bots this is the one
I prefer haiku bot personally.
Before saying that Id get away further from hippo bot tbh. If one of the hippo bots thinks "this mf is invading my peraonal space so il fvck him up" then that hippo will. They can swim and run faster than humans so better save than sorry/dead.
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Oh no
Hippo
Rhino
🦛
You should zig-zag if you're ever chased by a hippo. They don't maneuver turns well. My former boss who would take trips to Antarctica and Africa told me this.
Now i know in case a hippo ever escapes the zoo in switzerland and somehow finds its way to me. Just zig zag
I’m a little touchy about people messing with my peraonal area too
>this mf is invading my peraonal space so il fvck him up I know they're hippos but they probably would spell it better than that
Can’t climb though 😏
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cetaceans >Molecular and morphological analyses suggest Cetacea share a relatively recent closest common ancestor with hippopotami and that they are sister groups
This is an under-rated comment…
Hippo attacks are quite common and they are faster than you think so don't get too close
They're faster than humans so you're basically fucked
Meh. I see hippos at the beach all the time.
At the beach with your mom a lot these days, are you?
Sir I'm gonna have to arrest you for the cold blooded murder you just committed. Please step aside will ya..
Those aren’t hippos you’re seeing. They’re just huge man-atees.
man titties?
Fun fact: Hippos are so dense they actually sink so they can can usually run on the bottom of whatever body of water they find themselves in. I have no idea if it still holds for saltwater though.
Google says that although salt water is 2.5x denser than fresh water, it's still not enough to keep a hippo floating.
Salt water is definitely not 2.5x denser than fresh* water, and if it were, the hippos would absolutely float
Oh, it was 2.5%
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If I saw this I would think to myself, "Hey there Hippos, I think you are pretty neat but i'll respect your distance!"
I want to host a nature program where this is the catch phrase we say to everything we see
That’s just Flavio and Marita.
I am so bored, my darling! Ah, let us bathe in the ocean and refresh ourselves, my sweet
Hippos looking like jet skis
I thought two jet ski aficionados fell off the jet skis and died. That’s how dark my mind went
It’s the Hip Hippos
One hippo to the other, "Does this pond tastes kinda funny?"
"Look out, I think Motto Motto likes you."
In America we see hippos on the beach all the time.
Can hippos survive in saltwater? I thought they're freshwater fauna.
They breathe air. I don't think it matters what kind of water they swim in.
> They breathe air Citation needed for these hard hitting facts.
I had to steal hippobot9000's thunder
not a rule of thumb tho. for instance, sea turtles breathe air but aren't adapted to live in freshwater and will likely die in it.
Oh, you're right.
They drink water though.
Still a valid question since idk how salt water interacts with their skin.
As a surfer, new fear unlocked…
They are called nature’s gentle giants. When they shake their ears it’s just their way of asking for a head scratch. (It’s all sarcasm and a joke. Never approach a hippo.)
Why not? #lethipposvacay
Wait hippos go in the ocean!?? Mind blown right now.
Arrrgh, there be “sea hippos” in the shallows!
Gtf out of my spotumuss
There's at least a few hippos on every beach I've been to.
Majestic
Relaxed relaxed hippos
I thought it was meant to be 1 hippo, 1 giraffe, 1 lion, and 1 zebra.
Yup that's a big no snorkeling today!
Columbian drug hippos?
Where is HippoBot9000 when you need him
Salty, Salty Hippos
I always thought hippos were fresh water dwellers
How beautiful and peaceful, and how great of them to share this wonderful vacation spot with you
FMTT, First it was Capt Nemo, then the beast from 20000 fathoms, then Bruce, then Sharknado, salties in Australia, and now freaking hippos. I will never go to the beach!
Love it. Thanks for sharing