Unironically the deadliest land animal
Most adorable deadliest land animal. FTFY
Even more so than humans?
IIRC they kill more humans than any other non-human land animal.
By Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser - https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death#deaths-by-animal, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130583015Not even close, Scorpions, Dogs and Snakes are deadlier, and I’m relatively sure Mosquito’s count as land animals as well.
Just like everyone always says Dog man’s worst enemy.
Freshwater snail being in the top 10 is not something I expected
I think that is the invincible snail that chases you forever but if it touches you you die…but in return you are immortal until you get touched.
It was never a hypothetical, those people asking that were asking the internet for help. RIP
Dogs kill 50-70x as many people as hippos do, every year.
How many more dogs are there in the world than hippos? Just curious
At least 5
According to a lazy search, there’s some ~140,000 hippos and over 700 million domesticated breed dogs. So about 5000x as many dogs.
No idea.
If the Cocker Spaniel next door weighed 4 tons and was perpetually in a bad mood, I’d be a lot more concerned.
I was just responding to the “deadliest” comment but hippos aren’t even in the top 10, unless you’re only counting mammals and then they are 3rd. Mosquitos, humans, dogs, snakes, and snails round out the top 5. I guess that fact upset some dog lovers. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to humans. If a prankster wizard suddenly conjured a few million hippos into homes around the world you can bet they wouldn’t settle for merely snuffing out 50x-70x more humans. On the upside, they’d definitely chomp a lot of people we don’t like too
I honestly don’t know what the big deal is. I saw hippos in lots of homes growing up. All they wanted to eat were marbles.
This comes to my mind:
Great childrens book.Is that classic Sanrio character Big Challenges?
Why is it so hard to tolerate cute, not-yet-dangerous beings, lol…? I mean this chonk looks like it could just chew that leg off aah
“You just wait till I grow up!” - Baby hippo probably
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Argh! Hungry hungry hippos!
That’s me
