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Maven (famous) to [email protected]English • 11 months ago

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Maven (famous) to [email protected]English • 11 months ago
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  • @[email protected]
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    8•11 months ago

    Argh! Hungry hungry hippos!

  • @[email protected]
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    18•11 months ago

    Why is it so hard to tolerate cute, not-yet-dangerous beings, lol…? I mean this chonk looks like it could just chew that leg off aah

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    14•11 months ago

    mumch

  • @[email protected]
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    26•11 months ago

    This comes to my mind:

    Great childrens book.

    • @[email protected]
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      5•11 months ago

      Is that classic Sanrio character Big Challenges?

      • @[email protected]
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        1•11 months ago

        Didn’t know about that. Looks similar, but has nothing to do with Hello Kitty.

        Here is some video about the story:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXzI5S2AmL8

  • @[email protected]
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    6•11 months ago

    Taste for human flesh, acquired!

  • FATHI
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    2•11 months ago

    @Maven

    • Maven (famous)OP
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      5•11 months ago

      That’s me

  • caseyweederman
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    4•11 months ago

    I feel like even an infant hippo could snap a leg in half

  • I Cast Fist
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    4•11 months ago

    baby amphibious trampler tank

  • @[email protected]
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    3•11 months ago

  • @[email protected]
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    67•11 months ago

    Unironically the deadliest land animal

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆
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      5•11 months ago

      Even more so than humans?

      • @[email protected]
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        8•11 months ago

        IIRC they kill more humans than any other non-human land animal.

    • @[email protected]
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      7•11 months ago

      Dogs kill 50-70x as many people as hippos do, every year.

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        Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to hippos. If a prankster wizard suddenly conjured a few million hippos into homes around the world you can bet they wouldn’t settle for merely snuffing out 50x-70x more humans. On the upside, they’d definitely chomp a lot of people we don’t like too

        • @[email protected]
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          5•11 months ago

          I honestly don’t know what the big deal is. I saw hippos in lots of homes growing up. All they wanted to eat were marbles.

          • @[email protected]
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            1•11 months ago

            No, they live mostly off the crumbs of peanut butter on toast.

          • @[email protected]
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            3•11 months ago

            I encountered that a few times growing up too, I’ll never forget the ravenous way they murdered every marble they saw without a hint of concern for the devastated marble families left behind .

            • @[email protected]
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              And it was like some kind of morbid competition!

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          Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to humans.

          the “do better…” energy of this comment 🤣

      • @[email protected]
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        9•11 months ago

        If the Cocker Spaniel next door weighed 4 tons and was perpetually in a bad mood, I’d be a lot more concerned.

        • @[email protected]
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          5•11 months ago

          I was just responding to the “deadliest” comment but hippos aren’t even in the top 10, unless you’re only counting mammals and then they are 3rd. Mosquitos, humans, dogs, snakes, and snails round out the top 5. I guess that fact upset some dog lovers. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

      • @[email protected]
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        24•11 months ago

        How many more dogs are there in the world than hippos? Just curious

        • @[email protected]
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          2•11 months ago

          No idea.

        • @[email protected]
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          18•11 months ago

          According to a lazy search, there’s some ~140,000 hippos and over 700 million domesticated breed dogs. So about 5000x as many dogs.

        • @[email protected]
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          22•11 months ago

          At least 5

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      By Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser - https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death#deaths-by-animal, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130583015

      Not even close, Scorpions, Dogs and Snakes are deadlier, and I’m relatively sure Mosquito’s count as land animals as well.

      • @[email protected]
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        2•11 months ago

        It might be per unit population.

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          I couldn’t find estimates for snakes and scorpions and completely ignored the invertebrates here, but from those options, Tigers kill the most humans yearly per wild individual.

          There are about 5500 Tigers in the wild killing 50 humans yearly, while 115000 Hippos kill 500 humans yearly.

          So Tigers kill 9 humans per thousand individuals, Hippos kill 4, next would be Lions with 2.5 .

          Maybe they are the more deadly than Tigers on a per species basis since there are only 2 species of Hippo while 6 living species of Tigers exist… but then the other kill statistics would get a lot more precise as well. And I wont even try to analyze how often humans interact with specific animal groups.

      • @[email protected]
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        8•11 months ago

        Freshwater snail being in the top 10 is not something I expected

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          5•11 months ago

          I think that is the invincible snail that chases you forever but if it touches you you die…but in return you are immortal until you get touched.

          It was never a hypothetical, those people asking that were asking the internet for help. RIP

      • @[email protected]
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        3•11 months ago

        Why friend shaped then?

      • @[email protected]
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        1•11 months ago

        Just like everyone always says Dog man’s worst enemy.

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      36•11 months ago

      Most adorable deadliest land animal. FTFY

  • @[email protected]
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    18•11 months ago

    “You just wait till I grow up!” - Baby hippo probably

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