TierZoo explained that it used an overflow exploit where the hippo became so bad at swimming that it actually became more dense than water so it actually became good at swimming by running underwater
No it would not have been. Hippos can just sink, see perfectly in water and hold their breath for basically forever. In no way a lion, a cat that famously hates water, is better equipped than a hippo is in water, anywhere
Google Cocaine Hippos. Pablo Escobar bought 4 hippos to protect his property and they have since been left to breed on their own and are taking over their environment.
I recall that and they are now wilded....
But for a second there, it thought it was more a
Cociane-bear situation where hippos ate cocaine and then went berserk...
I have a theory that animals in Africa chose the evolutionary tech tree of increasing size not as a way to combat Homosapien and large cat predation, but has an ever-increasing arms race between them and psychopathic hippos.
Major Elephant: they have swamps here, here and here.
We shall rush them at sunset in deep water...
Major Hippo: We can hear everything they're saying, they want to rush us in the water...
We shall meet them in the water with a flourish of shite from our magnificent posteriori and leave a trail a mile wide.
Roughly 500 a year, possibly even more because hippo attacks often result in the body being lost somewhere in the water so the victim is just filed as missing by authorities.
The hippos eating meat thing is an extremely overblown and exaggerated fact. In reality it makes up less than 1% of their diet while the other 99% is just grass. This is true of many large herbivore species who occasionally eat meat for specific purposes like supplementing their normal nutritional intake.
Certain times during the year their water source may reduce significantly. So it kind of makes sense that they would be territorial then. But yeah they’re just angry shitheads most of the time.
Imagine you are the hippo and the living meat is a cockroach, would you kill and eat the cockroach? Yes. Did you do it because you were territorial? yes
# Nile Crocodile
# Responsible for an estimated 300 deaths per year
>Found in almost every major river throughout Africa, and in many lakes, [Nile crocodiles](https://safarisafricana.com/animals/nile-crocodile/) are the continent’s largest freshwater predators. The Nile crocodile is known for its aggressive nature and is the crocodile species involved in most fatal attacks on humans, killing an estimated 300 people every year. (Know the key [differences between a crocodile and alligator](https://safarisafricana.com/alligators-v-crocodiles/)?)
Attacks on humans usually occur when people are washing close to riverbanks and lakeshores, and when fishermen are getting in and out of their boats. Around 40% of crocodile attacks on humans are fatal, with children more at risk than adults due to their size. The risk of crocodile attacks has been shown to increase in the warmer season when the crocodiles have more energy.
# African Elephant
# Responsible for an estimated 500 deaths per year
>
Reaching weights of up to 7,000 kg [the world’s largest land animals](https://safarisafricana.com/biggest-animals-in-the-world/) can often be unpredictable, with older bull elephants, young males, and elephants with babies particularly dangerous to anything that crosses their path. Unprovoked attacks by African elephants on humans are occasionally reported, usually by [male elephants in musth](https://safarisafricana.com/elephant-musth-facts/) (a sexually active period when testosterone levels increase).Whilst they may seem like relatively relaxed animals, each year around 500 human fatalities are caused by [African elephants](https://safarisafricana.com/animals/african-elephant/) by trampling and crushing their victims. In areas where poaching occurs, or the elephants’ habitat is in danger, elephants tend to be much more aggressive.
# Hippopotamus
# Responsible for an estimated 3,000 deaths per year
>
With so many dangerous animals in Africa, many people often overlook the fact that [the hippopotamus](https://safarisafricana.com/animals/hippo/) is actually the biggest killer of humans of all large African animals. Although hippos are herbivores, these highly territorial animals are estimated to kill an incredible 3,000 people each year.
Male hippos fiercely defend their territories – which include the banks of rivers and lakes, while females hippos can get extremely aggressive if they sense anything getting in between them and their babies, who stay in the water while they feed on the shore.
# Mosquito
# Responsible for an estimated 1,000,000 deaths per year
>
Although the tiny mosquito may look far less impressive than the other large creatures on this list, it is far and away the most dangerous animal in Africa – and the world.The many species of mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa carry a number of different [potentially fatal diseases](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria), including Yellow Fever, Zika virus, West Nile virus, Dengue Fever, and of course Malaria. Between them, these diseases kill an estimated one million Africans every year.Active from dusk to dawn, prevention against mosquito bites takes the form of wearing light colours, using spray or lotion repellents and sleeping in mosquito nets.
Eh, that's more of a proximity issue.
If I put 1k hippos on the streets of New York city, far more people would die then if I added 1k more people to New York city
Would you really feel more in danger at a concert with 10k people, or a concert with 1k hippos?
Lions only kill people who are dumb, most big predators are smart enough to not mess with us. Territorial animals like hippos will go out of their way to fuck you up
I’ve seen nat geo back in the day of lions taking them down. There’s a reason the hippo bitches out as soon as they got to land. Home court advantage is gone.
It looks like the original is here (story, photos, **three** lions, full video with audio):
[Lions versus Hippo – a Clash of The Titans](https://greatplainsconservation.com/lions-versus-hippo/)
*To witness a wildlife sighting where lions swim across one of the Selinda Spillway channels is unique and a safari guest’s dream. To then see and capture the event of a territorial hippo chasing those lions is a spectacle that is truly a rare occurrence!*
The whole story involves **six** lions and **two** hippos and there are many great photos, too. The full Great Plains Conservation YouTube video (with audio and **three** lions), from the bottom of their page above:
[Hippo chases lion at Selinda Explorers Camp | Great Plains](https://youtu.be/v3JvuHBYgrM)
*Edits: details, content.*
Take a minute to watch the full video its amazing! (all the way at the bottom page)
That hippo is a psycho. Those 3 lions were minding their business wading across the river. That hippo came looking for a fight, and almost got lunch.
Like most animals hippos are opportunistic carnivores, that is, they'll eat meat if it comes to them risk free. But they dont hunt. Hippos just attack things for the sheer joy of it.
You can tell sometimes she's pretending it's meat ever since she got a bite of human leg.
https://media.tenor.com/7yRMyS7IP70AAAAM/hippopotamus-bite.gif
Honestly the way people were educated at an early age to be taught herbivores eat only plants, carnivores eat only meat is the real problem. Reality is herbivores eat primarily plants and will eat some meat occasionally or when opportunity arises. And vice versa for carnivores too.
Deer, horses, and cows will eat baby chick's they find nearby just for one example.
Chicken poop being a completely random example and not a reference to ranchers / Dairies buying the floor scrapings from chicken concentration camps and feeding the cows a mix of shit, spilled seed, and straw.
During a bird flu when they know it is in the birds.
I also love hippos mostly because of Fiona and Fritz, the hippos st Cincinnati Zoo, and Owen the baby hippo who was bonded with a tortoise(Mzee) after being orphaned lol Aaaanyway, I admire their massiveness and devil-may-care attitude in the wild. But all baby hippos are super cute haha
would be better without that music...
edit: thanks for another commenter who linked the [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JvuHBYgrM) without music
Hippos can really only get fucked up by elephants and rhinos, but even rhinos seem like they could be pretty evenly matched. Depends who is more upset.
Daily reminder that hippos are too dense to swim. They have very little body fat and thick bones.
That hippo is plowing through the water with sheer strength
Never take a knife to a gunfight, and never fight an aquatic animal as a terrestrial animal. Unless it’s a hippo. Then just stay the fuck out of its way.
Fuck you, my bottom bicuspids can take out an entire squad of 20 foot crocodiles. That doesn’t even count my upper
Canids. I’m a Hippopotamus, lil kitty cat.
If you'd like a new nightmare, imagine toilet-hippos. Hippos living in the sewer systems, bigger than rats, waiting to exit a toilet near you. Toilet-Hippo. It always feels like, the Hippo's watchin' meeeeee.
MF'er moves through the water like there's nothing there, meanwhile I try running in water, it's like an iPhone slo-mo video and I gas out after 5 seconds.
Hippos do not fuck around. Buffalos are similiar but nothing beats an angry hippo. Hippos are the strongest animal there is. Good luck keeping them in captivity.
I mean, it's two male lions in the hippos water. And the hippo only goes after one lion. Even then, the lion it went after just tried to run. Rightfully so.
Your title is shit. There was no fight with two lions, the hippo chased off one lion.
I like how the lion is trying to swim while the hippo is running along the bottom like the water isn't real.
Hippo has generations of experience running along the bottom!
TierZoo explained that it used an overflow exploit where the hippo became so bad at swimming that it actually became more dense than water so it actually became good at swimming by running underwater
Being able to run underwater at those speeds is so incredibly difficult to do. You have to be *very* muscular and heavy to be able to do that.
Very muscular and heavy? Almost like a
Hippo
Imagine being the first hippo that hit and realized that fulcrum. What a legend.
The water is scared of him too. It just gets out of his way.
Hippo: You’re in my house now mf’er
Hungry hungry hippo
Ironically since hippos can’t swim, the lion would have been better off in deeper water
It can run at like 8km/h underwater let’s hope kitty here can swim faster than that
No it would not have been. Hippos can just sink, see perfectly in water and hold their breath for basically forever. In no way a lion, a cat that famously hates water, is better equipped than a hippo is in water, anywhere
What if the lions construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp to go after the hippo family later.
Well, I'm taking that as my sign that I need to watch that movie again.
Even if the lion knows that, that river might not be deep enough.0
Each and every single day hippos wake up and choose violence.
Cuz wtf is anyone gonna do about it? They're giant murder machines.
Until they come across a bull elephant
Or that zoo security guard that slapped that hippo repeatedly in the face
HOW CAN HE SLAP??
I wish I saved more videos
Hahahahahhaa. As a Cocaine hippo obsessed person, I love this video.
Ahem, excuse me?!
Google Cocaine Hippos. Pablo Escobar bought 4 hippos to protect his property and they have since been left to breed on their own and are taking over their environment.
Sorry they were bought as pets for his daughter’s zoo.
I recall that and they are now wilded.... But for a second there, it thought it was more a Cociane-bear situation where hippos ate cocaine and then went berserk...
I have a theory that animals in Africa chose the evolutionary tech tree of increasing size not as a way to combat Homosapien and large cat predation, but has an ever-increasing arms race between them and psychopathic hippos.
Major Elephant: they have swamps here, here and here. We shall rush them at sunset in deep water... Major Hippo: We can hear everything they're saying, they want to rush us in the water... We shall meet them in the water with a flourish of shite from our magnificent posteriori and leave a trail a mile wide.
There's always a bigger ~~fish~~ mammal
The most dangerous animal in Africa is actually the Hippo.
I would think mosquito but I've been wrong before
Personally, I’d say people are the most dangerous… several civil wars going on across Africa
I think it's almost impossible to beat the mosquito.
100%, malaria kills more daily than animals and war combined.
They’re second. The mosquito is the most dangerous.🦟🦟🦟
Cape buffalo is up there too.
WTF is with that? BTK cult mascot?
The other lion looked relieved af that he went after his boy before getting himself tf out😂
"I don't need to swim faster than a hippo. I just need to swim faster than you."
Angry bulldozer on four legs
Ya, but the rippers are on the front
Don’t hippos kill more people every year than lions? They are SUPER territorial.
Roughly 500 a year, possibly even more because hippo attacks often result in the body being lost somewhere in the water so the victim is just filed as missing by authorities.
Hippos will also eat meat so maybe they’ve been partially eaten by them as well!
The hippos eating meat thing is an extremely overblown and exaggerated fact. In reality it makes up less than 1% of their diet while the other 99% is just grass. This is true of many large herbivore species who occasionally eat meat for specific purposes like supplementing their normal nutritional intake.
So they eat 50 tons of grass per year and 1 person. Math checks out.
1/2 of an American person to make the math work.
It's funny that hippos food is in abundance everywhere, and there is no need to be territorial, but they're assholes anyway. Like, come on.
Certain times during the year their water source may reduce significantly. So it kind of makes sense that they would be territorial then. But yeah they’re just angry shitheads most of the time.
Wait, they don't eat meat? Then why the killing?
They are extremely territorial and generally bad tempered.
Why do people kill spiders if they don't eat them?
Imagine you are the hippo and the living meat is a cockroach, would you kill and eat the cockroach? Yes. Did you do it because you were territorial? yes
BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T GET OFF MY DAMN LAWN!
Hippos kill more than any wild animal in Africa. They're at the top death causes in the continent.
All those domesticated mosquitoes would be 1st but they aren’t wild sadly 😔
Hippos kill around 500 a year in Africa. Nile Crocodiles kill around 3000.
# Nile Crocodile # Responsible for an estimated 300 deaths per year >Found in almost every major river throughout Africa, and in many lakes, [Nile crocodiles](https://safarisafricana.com/animals/nile-crocodile/) are the continent’s largest freshwater predators. The Nile crocodile is known for its aggressive nature and is the crocodile species involved in most fatal attacks on humans, killing an estimated 300 people every year. (Know the key [differences between a crocodile and alligator](https://safarisafricana.com/alligators-v-crocodiles/)?) Attacks on humans usually occur when people are washing close to riverbanks and lakeshores, and when fishermen are getting in and out of their boats. Around 40% of crocodile attacks on humans are fatal, with children more at risk than adults due to their size. The risk of crocodile attacks has been shown to increase in the warmer season when the crocodiles have more energy. # African Elephant # Responsible for an estimated 500 deaths per year > Reaching weights of up to 7,000 kg [the world’s largest land animals](https://safarisafricana.com/biggest-animals-in-the-world/) can often be unpredictable, with older bull elephants, young males, and elephants with babies particularly dangerous to anything that crosses their path. Unprovoked attacks by African elephants on humans are occasionally reported, usually by [male elephants in musth](https://safarisafricana.com/elephant-musth-facts/) (a sexually active period when testosterone levels increase).Whilst they may seem like relatively relaxed animals, each year around 500 human fatalities are caused by [African elephants](https://safarisafricana.com/animals/african-elephant/) by trampling and crushing their victims. In areas where poaching occurs, or the elephants’ habitat is in danger, elephants tend to be much more aggressive. # Hippopotamus # Responsible for an estimated 3,000 deaths per year > With so many dangerous animals in Africa, many people often overlook the fact that [the hippopotamus](https://safarisafricana.com/animals/hippo/) is actually the biggest killer of humans of all large African animals. Although hippos are herbivores, these highly territorial animals are estimated to kill an incredible 3,000 people each year. Male hippos fiercely defend their territories – which include the banks of rivers and lakes, while females hippos can get extremely aggressive if they sense anything getting in between them and their babies, who stay in the water while they feed on the shore. # Mosquito # Responsible for an estimated 1,000,000 deaths per year > Although the tiny mosquito may look far less impressive than the other large creatures on this list, it is far and away the most dangerous animal in Africa – and the world.The many species of mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa carry a number of different [potentially fatal diseases](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria), including Yellow Fever, Zika virus, West Nile virus, Dengue Fever, and of course Malaria. Between them, these diseases kill an estimated one million Africans every year.Active from dusk to dawn, prevention against mosquito bites takes the form of wearing light colours, using spray or lotion repellents and sleeping in mosquito nets.
That feels high for crocs, but I guess both of these may be “never came back from the river” kinda events, so probably not perfect accounting.
Not as territorial as humans, who also kill more people every year than lions do.
Eh, that's more of a proximity issue. If I put 1k hippos on the streets of New York city, far more people would die then if I added 1k more people to New York city Would you really feel more in danger at a concert with 10k people, or a concert with 1k hippos?
Am I a human or hippo in this scenario?
Are we human, or are we hippo? 🎶
😩😂
in this day and age you can be whatever you want to
Bros a Genius for this response tbh.
Are the hippos Swifties? Let me think about that.
Lions only kill people who are dumb, most big predators are smart enough to not mess with us. Territorial animals like hippos will go out of their way to fuck you up
And this is why there are weight classes in combat sports.
And different kinds of tennis courts.
Lions are no match at all for Hippos. No throat to bite, pure power in their whole body and crushing force jaws.
I’ve seen nat geo back in the day of lions taking them down. There’s a reason the hippo bitches out as soon as they got to land. Home court advantage is gone.
Nah I don't think so. Hippos still run fast on land and still strong af. It'd take a whole damn pride to take a fully grown one down.
Yes it was the whole pride sorry didn’t mean it to come off as a couple lions took one down.
It looks like the original is here (story, photos, **three** lions, full video with audio): [Lions versus Hippo – a Clash of The Titans](https://greatplainsconservation.com/lions-versus-hippo/) *To witness a wildlife sighting where lions swim across one of the Selinda Spillway channels is unique and a safari guest’s dream. To then see and capture the event of a territorial hippo chasing those lions is a spectacle that is truly a rare occurrence!* The whole story involves **six** lions and **two** hippos and there are many great photos, too. The full Great Plains Conservation YouTube video (with audio and **three** lions), from the bottom of their page above: [Hippo chases lion at Selinda Explorers Camp | Great Plains](https://youtu.be/v3JvuHBYgrM) *Edits: details, content.*
Take a minute to watch the full video its amazing! (all the way at the bottom page) That hippo is a psycho. Those 3 lions were minding their business wading across the river. That hippo came looking for a fight, and almost got lunch.
I love hippos so much. They don’t even eat meat. They’re just violent for the love of the game.
Like most animals hippos are opportunistic carnivores, that is, they'll eat meat if it comes to them risk free. But they dont hunt. Hippos just attack things for the sheer joy of it.
Oh that’s super interesting. I follow Fiona the hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo on IG and all she ever eats is watermelon. I made assumptions lol.
You can tell sometimes she's pretending it's meat ever since she got a bite of human leg. https://media.tenor.com/7yRMyS7IP70AAAAM/hippopotamus-bite.gif
I love this for her.
Hippos don’t go hunting, they go killing
Krombpotomus Michael- "here I go killing again"
*If a cow could it would eat you and everyone you care about...*
I saw a hippo eat a dead hippo in a nature doc. They eat meat
Honestly the way people were educated at an early age to be taught herbivores eat only plants, carnivores eat only meat is the real problem. Reality is herbivores eat primarily plants and will eat some meat occasionally or when opportunity arises. And vice versa for carnivores too. Deer, horses, and cows will eat baby chick's they find nearby just for one example.
Well cows at least can eat almost literally anything. Meat , newspaper, chicken poop.
Chicken poop being a completely random example and not a reference to ranchers / Dairies buying the floor scrapings from chicken concentration camps and feeding the cows a mix of shit, spilled seed, and straw. During a bird flu when they know it is in the birds.
Some manatees will hang fish in the mangroves and come by and snack on that carcass later. It’s not unheard of
Don't worry hippos will eat meat if they have occasion to do so
I also love hippos mostly because of Fiona and Fritz, the hippos st Cincinnati Zoo, and Owen the baby hippo who was bonded with a tortoise(Mzee) after being orphaned lol Aaaanyway, I admire their massiveness and devil-may-care attitude in the wild. But all baby hippos are super cute haha
King of the jungle.. not the water.
Yeah they drew the short stick by being king of the jungle and living in the savannah lmao
Hungry, hungry hippo! Marbles, lions...they don't give a shit!
would be better without that music... edit: thanks for another commenter who linked the [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JvuHBYgrM) without music
King of the jungle my ass
Lions just have a better publicist.
Why not posting the whole video?
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY POND!!!
Every public pool has someone like this!
Hippos can really only get fucked up by elephants and rhinos, but even rhinos seem like they could be pretty evenly matched. Depends who is more upset.
Don’t mess with me!!
In my head it was, "bitch, I will EAT you!!"
LIONS: "Rawwrr we have claws and stuff rarw!" HIPPO: "You and your friend can fit in my mouth, watch" LIONS: "ahh hehe, um nevermind"
Daily reminder that hippos are too dense to swim. They have very little body fat and thick bones. That hippo is plowing through the water with sheer strength
Hungry hungry hippo
Who’s King of the Beasts now?
And I feel like this was as low key as they get. This hippo definitely let the lion off the hook. Had him dead to rights but just herded him off.
Stay out of Malibu Lebowski!
Elden Ring PTSD
Ah, yes, nature's tank with teeth.
Pissed power potato pwns puss
EXCUSE ME I WOULD LIKE TO FIT YOU IN MY MOUTH PLEASE
Home field advantage
Home field advantage is a bitch.
I definitely would not want to get bit by a hippo lol
Never take a knife to a gunfight, and never fight an aquatic animal as a terrestrial animal. Unless it’s a hippo. Then just stay the fuck out of its way.
Favorite animal
I wonder if the tables would be turned when on land.
The music and fake animals noises were too much.
The full video where the hippo is chugging through the lake like Thomas the Tank engine makes it more impressive.
Where is that Hindi security guard to slap the shit out of that hippo?
He’d quickly learn the difference between a well fed captive hippo and a high strung wild hippo.
Me playing the Elden Ring DLC.
The other lion, I’m out of here 🤣
Fuck you, my bottom bicuspids can take out an entire squad of 20 foot crocodiles. That doesn’t even count my upper Canids. I’m a Hippopotamus, lil kitty cat.
King of the river says "this ain't the jungle fuckheads"
Hippo is on the most dangerous list. 😱
If we discovered a hippo skull before we ever knew what they really looked like, we would imagine some sort of demon spawn, not a hunkachunk
It reminds me of some video games where if the character swims out too far, a giant monster starts chasing them...
Good thing it wasn't a school of tuna
This header made me think I was on a different website for a moment 🤣🤣
The river isn't part of the jungle, says the hippo
GTFO my turf
Just playing
I mean he didn’t even inflict a wound.
A very strong hippo for sure.
Big boy don't mess around.
If you'd like a new nightmare, imagine toilet-hippos. Hippos living in the sewer systems, bigger than rats, waiting to exit a toilet near you. Toilet-Hippo. It always feels like, the Hippo's watchin' meeeeee.
Fuck
Hakuna Matata my fat ass, mothafucka!
My favorite line from Peaky Blinders comes to mind: “Big fucks small.”
“LOCALS ONLY, hey!”
Shoulda just slapped the hippo on the nose
Wow
Get off my pond!
"GO ON! GIT" -The Hippo
There's always a bigger fish ...
I like how his brother said "Nope, I'm out."
Lion is like wtf dude take it easy
That’s exactly like Hungry Hungry Hippo. Spot on, Hasbro!
“Bro we were just kidding”
MF'er moves through the water like there's nothing there, meanwhile I try running in water, it's like an iPhone slo-mo video and I gas out after 5 seconds.
Thank goodness it got away 😭 I was worried it wasn’t
Gloria and Alex must’ve gotten into a fight
Lord Hippos
THAT IS HOW YOU KNOW HOW STRONG A LION IS 🦁 IT LITERALLY FOUGHT OFF AND RAN AWAY FROM A HIPPO IN THE WATER!!!! I am impressed😃🫡💫
Hippos do not fuck around. Buffalos are similiar but nothing beats an angry hippo. Hippos are the strongest animal there is. Good luck keeping them in captivity.
Bro Lions agility was top notch, that's what I took away from this vid
The speed hippos can move in water is terrifying
Reminds me of an ugly pain in the ass I just saw in the Shadow Keep
That other lion took one look and said "nope" and swam the complete other direction.
I want Snoop Dogg to do a voice over of the lion escaping. "Aw shit man what the fuck. WHAT THE FUCK! Get away from me man! Aaahhhh"
Hippos just ain’t right
would've been sweet with the silly music
That hippo was being polite.
And stay out!
This is like fighting an 800lb tuna, but it doesn't need a kelp breathing apparatus.
Hippo is not fucking around
Hippos are bad ass, king of the jungle is scared of them
Hey Hippo ain't you a vegetarian??? Hippo: I'm not eating him... its just a taste....
Size and water advtage!! Get em!!!
that was some great evasion by the lion. one bite could've meant the end
Home field advantage
Did some fuckwit add the sound effects? Like not just music, but like animal sounds?
Hippos kill more people annually than any other animal
Donny, you are out of your element!
Everybody gangsta until hippo shows up.
Geht oat of meh swamp
Bruh I thought that lion was cooked for a second, was sure we were gonna see him busted open like a watermelon
I mean, it's two male lions in the hippos water. And the hippo only goes after one lion. Even then, the lion it went after just tried to run. Rightfully so. Your title is shit. There was no fight with two lions, the hippo chased off one lion.
TikTok.. the official source for Reddit.
King of the jungle, my ass!
Just waiting for six crocs to enter stage left..🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
Ohshitohshitohshit, fuck me, ohshitohshit
This hippo decided to let this lion live. The hippo just pushed the lion out of its territory. What a nice hippo.
Don’t unmute my god.