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[–] hakase@lemm.ee 31 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.

[–] nitefox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they really aren’t herbivores?

[–] soviettaters@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

They're herbivores that cheat sometimes