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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My money is on hippo every day of the week. You'd have to find a freak specimen of a rhino to compete with even an average hippo.

Rhino weight range: 1,320 - 2,090 pounds

Hippo weight range: 2,900 - 4,000 pounds

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm seeing in my googling that MOST rhino species are more massive than hippos.

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

It varies depending on rhino species but rhinos are generally larger.

Largest land mammals are elephant > rhino > hippo.

White rhinos are often over 3,500kg.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Huh. I guess I thought rhinos were bigger. Well I bet one could take on a pygmy hippo!

weigh 180โ€“275 kg (397โ€“606 lb)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Idk about rhinos but hippos can be pretty grumpy too