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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

[–] Shurimal@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't they practically marsh cows?

[–] nilaus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Angry, steroid pumped marsh cows!

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how hippo cheese would taste like

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] incendiaryperihelion@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] paholg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd still rank them second, after humans.

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 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.

[–] sulgoth@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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