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johnp3907
(3,772 posts)Some interesting stuff about hippo swimming here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/flight-of-the-hippopotamus/524343/
summer_in_TX
(2,917 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
(23,593 posts)Either way, you don't want to be in a slow boat!
"River Horse", indeed.
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,857 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(12,136 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,050 posts)I wish the video had gone on a bit longer. That hippo was not losing ground.
Historic NY
(37,617 posts)they purposely were trying to get hit to keep coming.
Grokenstein
(5,765 posts)"Don't start none, won't be none. Hehhhhh."
qazplm135
(7,450 posts)did you get that thing I sent you?
qazplm135
(7,450 posts)hungry...
wait for it...
hungry hippo!
littlemissmartypants
(23,622 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,932 posts)They don't look like they can swim any more than I do.
ZonkerHarris
(24,705 posts)Skittles
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lamp_shade
(14,946 posts)But that's just me.
Rhiannon12866
(212,686 posts)malaise
(272,397 posts)Hopefully we will return to calling the lake by its correct name Mosi-oa-Tunya
Rhiannon12866
(212,686 posts)![](/emoticons/scared.gif)
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malaise
(272,397 posts)![](/emoticons/hi.gif)
Rhiannon12866
(212,686 posts)![](/emoticons/laughing.gif)
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brush
(55,425 posts)RandySF
(63,223 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,450 posts)Starring Peter Potamus as you've never seen him!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,722 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.