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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Like practically all herbivores, especially large ones, hippos are more than happy to eat meat whenever they can opportunistically do so, and are actually much more likely to do so than other large herbivores because of how effective they are at killing other animals. They've been known to kill and eat animals as large as wildebeest and zebras.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they really aren’t herbivores?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They're herbivores that cheat sometimes

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Mistaking "vegetarian" for "harmless pacifist" has been the last mistake of many would-be predators.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't they practically marsh cows?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Angry, steroid pumped marsh cows!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how hippo cheese would taste like

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hippo milk connoisseur: "I detect hints of dirt, poop, and malaria"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They'll definitely eat you if they can, sorry

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

pretty sure the most dangerous animal in the world is far and away the mosquito

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd still rank them second, after humans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Far more humans have died do mosquitos than in all wars combined. So I'd say they outranks us with ease.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

if the only criteria is human deaths, sure. mosquitoes on the other hand have never caused a mass extinction and they've definitely never caused the sheer level of cruelty and suffering we inflict daily on the animals we factory farm. there's really no competition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but how many mosquitoes have died due to mankind?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People associate deadliness with the capability of violent behavior ending in gory results. Find a one ton mosquito, people will cry danger.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I feel like that could apply to a lot of things.