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(3,730 posts)Some interesting stuff about hippo swimming here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/flight-of-the-hippopotamus/524343/
summer_in_TX
(2,731 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
(23,336 posts)Either way, you don't want to be in a slow boat!
"River Horse", indeed.
AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,850 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,587 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,841 posts)I wish the video had gone on a bit longer. That hippo was not losing ground.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)they purposely were trying to get hit to keep coming.
Grokenstein
(5,721 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
(22,631 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)They don't look like they can swim any more than I do.
ZonkerHarris
(24,218 posts)Skittles
(153,142 posts)lamp_shade
(14,826 posts)But that's just me.
Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)malaise
(268,887 posts)Hopefully we will return to calling the lake by its correct name Mosi-oa-Tunya
Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)malaise
(268,887 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,161 posts)brush
(53,764 posts)RandySF
(58,728 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,174 posts)Starring Peter Potamus as you've never seen him!
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 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.