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[RandySF]

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[johnp3907]

1. Great video!

Some interesting stuff about hippo “swimming” here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/flight-of-the-hippopotamus/524343/

[summer_in_TX]

2. They are way more aggressive than I thought.

Somehow I'd always thought of them as relatively bucolic. I wouldn't want to be in a boat and have one gaining on me!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. Or maybe that was a "Hippo in Love".

Either way, you don't want to be in a slow boat!

"River Horse", indeed.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

3. I would never have imagined they could do that... nt

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. K&R

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Oh, my. I am impressed.

I wish the video had gone on a bit longer. That hippo was not losing ground.

[Historic NY]

6. I was rooting for the Hippo....

they purposely were trying to get hit to keep coming.

[Grokenstein]

7. Like dolphins! Bloated, punching-bag-faced dolphins!

"Don't start none, won't be none. Hehhhhh."

[qazplm135]

9. reminds me...

did you get that thing I sent you?

[qazplm135]

8. That must have been one...

hungry...

wait for it...

hungry hippo!

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Spectacular! Thanks for sharing this, RandySF. ❤

[JohnnyRingo]

11. That is insane!

They don't look like they can swim any more than I do.

[ZonkerHarris]

12. holy fuck

[Skittles]

13. he is butterfly stroking!

[lamp_shade]

14. Looks like Happy Hippo-style body surfing to me... little fella is having fun.

But that's just me.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[malaise]

20. Great post

Hopefully we will return to calling the lake by its correct name Mosi-oa-Tunya

[Rhiannon12866]

21. The lake is lovely, but I would be scared witless if one of these were chasing me!

[malaise]

22. Yah think?

[Rhiannon12866]

23. ...

[brush]

16. My God. Are they carnivors? Do they kill humans for food? I never imagined.

[RandySF]

17. Highly reactive to perceived threats

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. Attack of the Zombie Hippos

"You Can Run -- But Not Very Far"

Starring Peter Potamus as you've never seen him!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

24. I have not ever seen a hippo swim fast.

Jumping up out of the water in fast forward motion to breathe
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No wonder hippos were seen as evil forces in ancient Egypt.
At the weighing of the heart against Maat's feather,Ammit waits by the scale where bad people's hearts are swallowed by her a half hippo composite creature called Ammit the devourer.

[csziggy]

25. Hippos don't swim - but here is how they can move so fast in the water