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(3,732 posts)Some interesting stuff about hippo swimming here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/flight-of-the-hippopotamus/524343/
summer_in_TX
(2,748 posts)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
(23,362 posts)Either way, you don't want to be in a slow boat!
"River Horse", indeed.
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,852 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,632 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,894 posts)I wish the video had gone on a bit longer. That hippo was not losing ground.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)they purposely were trying to get hit to keep coming.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)"Don't start none, won't be none. Hehhhhh."
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)did you get that thing I sent you?
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)hungry...
wait for it...
hungry hippo!
littlemissmartypants
(22,747 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,640 posts)They don't look like they can swim any more than I do.
ZonkerHarris
(24,250 posts)Skittles
(153,185 posts)lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)But that's just me.
Rhiannon12866
(205,893 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Hopefully we will return to calling the lake by its correct name Mosi-oa-Tunya
Rhiannon12866
(205,893 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,893 posts)brush
(53,840 posts)RandySF
(59,167 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,193 posts)Starring Peter Potamus as you've never seen him!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)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.