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gwalchmai Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 From the "Damn, I thought they were just big ole fat gals" dept: The hippopotamus is, without any doubt, the most incredibly underrated dangerous animal in the world. . . . [Hippos] leave the water after dark to eat terrestrial grasses and shoots, often traveling ten or more miles a night in search of the forage to keep their rock-hard, thick-skinned bodies going. In many African reserves and parks, overpopulations of hippos have destroyed the habitat for miles on each side of the rivers, necessitating the cropping of excess animals. When a hippo leaves his aquatic home and is no longer in the security of his watery territory, he becomes as homicidally neurotic as Son of Sam. And that's just when he's healthy. If he's recently had a slashing, blood-foaming battle with a rival and is in terrible pain from the long cuts and gouges left by the knife-sharp fighting tusks of his enemy, his temperament is about like that of nitroglycerine heated in a double boiler. Definitely, shall we say, unstable. Most big game is decidedly unpredictable, but not so much as the hippo. If you manage to blunder your way between him and the water, he will usually charge. A decent-sized bull hippo will shade two and a half tons, and if you're under the impression that he's either slow or clumsy, you had better stay away from any African water bigger than a damp sponge. He can put that five thousand pounds of muscle into overdrive as fast as any rhino or Cape buffalo, and if he catches you, you'll probably be a lot worse off. He has four fighting tusks as thick as pick handles and as sharp as the edge of this page. Whetting against each other as they do, they stay sharp throughout the animal's life. On a normal bull, the exposed portion of the lower tusks will reach from gum line to tip about the same distance as between your elbow and your wrist. They will also penetrate your chest with the greatest of ease, which you might consider undesirable. . . . A hippo charge from close range gives one the feeling of being attacked by an oversized grand piano with the lid open. The mouth will open, exposing the tusks as he gathers speed, throwing a wake like a landing craft. Some I have seen were making more noise than a Moog synthesizer with a major short circuit; others were completely silent. Noisy or silent, he'll have your absolute, undivided attention - I promise you ... Considering that there are records of single hippos tearing ten-foot crocodiles in half, I don't suppose it would be especially constructive for me to detail what happens if you aren't very lucky. https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/10/er-judge-about-those-hippos.html 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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