Is there an animal out there that can step to a pissed hippo?
here are some facts
*Male hippos can be up to 15 feet long, 5 feet high, and 8,000 pounds in weight, making them one of the largest terrestrial mammals. Only elephants and some white rhinos are larger.
*Several hundred people a year do not survive a close hippo encounters. In addition, hippos are more deadly than many feared predators, including lions.
*An angry hippo can run much faster than a human; they have been clocked in shorting running dashes at 30 mph.
*Mother hippos have been known to kill lions and bite crocodiles in half.
*The only natural predators of adult hippos are humans who seek them for their ivory tusks.
haha…I was bsing with a buddy one what is the baddest animal on the planet…sort of like mike tyson for humans…and we figured hippos were not to be f&cked with…the only thing I can think of that can step to a hippo is a anaconda
That would be a sweet fight…someone should set one up and video it. maybe there is an underground fight club with animals…I bet the championship match is hippo and rhino
hippos hate crocs cause they eat their young. i watched that shit on TV, the mother hippo was cryin cuz they got her baby and she went DEBO on the crocs.
rhino vs. hippo on land. http://members.aol.com/HippoPage/hrquest.htm#part3 says that hippos and African rhinos are of similar size, have formidable weapons (the rhino’s horns and the hippo’s tusks) and are fierce fighters when aroused. The author thinks the hippo would win and cites Bernhard Grzimek’s essay “The African Black Rhinoceros,” from Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, 1972, XIII, 57-58. A hippo surfaced in a pond, grabbed a black rhino’s front leg, pulled it down and tore it to pieces with its huge tusks. A correspondent at http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts113697.aspx said that the hippo would win due to its stronger jaws and bite. http://members.aol.com/HippoPage/debate.htm has several people debating a possible fight. Matthew Patten thinks the rhino would win and that the rhino’s horns would get through the hippo’s layers of fat. Countess Laylanie says the rhino would win because rhinos are more aggressive, have horns and are less lazy than hippos. Ramon Valencia on the same page backs the hippo, although he mentions sites where hippos and rhinos live together peacefully. He says that white rhinos tend to avoid confrontation. A rhino usually charges out of fear or confusion. Hippos are fiercely territorial and do not hesitate to attack intruders. They constantly fight amongst each other to determine superiority and dominance. The hippo’s outer layer of fat protects its muscles and internal organs during fights. Hippos’ jaws have great power and can bite canoes and crocodiles in half. hippo’s outer layer of fat is actually quite functional. It provides insulation and buoyancy in the water, and it protects the animal’s muscles and internal organs in a fight. Hippos can quickly twist and change directions. Rhinos prefer to fight by lowering their heads and charging at an opponent to try and gore it with its horns. Hippos attack the enemy’s flanks. Rhinos have poor eyesight. Ramon Valenia believes the combatants would circle each other before the rhino would charge the hippo’s midsection. The hippo would twist to the side and bite the rhino’s flank. This would be repeated when the rhino charged again. The hippo’s fat would help protect it from serious wounds from the rhino’s horns. Ramon Valencia reckons the rhino would collapse from blood loss or the hippo would bite down on one of the rhino’s legs. One writer suggests that rhinos would win some fights, while hippos would win others. Bussy said that the hippo would win a fight in water, while the rhino would be more likely to win on land. David Herbert agrees that the hippo would win in water, due to its teeth, strength and ability to stay under water, as well as the possibility of drowning the rhino. Jack mack (http://forums.plentyoffish.com/113697datingPostpage9.aspx) thought the rhino would run away. Several correspondents reckon that the rhino would win on land, although the consensus seems to be that the hippo’s jaws are more than a match for the rhino’s horns, so I shall give the benefit of the doubt to the hippo.
a very large pissed off bull elephant will more than likely beable to seriously wound a hippo. their tusks are huge and legs very large. i dont think a hippo could seriously harm a large elephant by bittin its legs.
rhino has a chance to spear a hippo but hippos do have massive fat skin. same as a rhino. i forget which one has the thickest skin
google image search for white rhino has picture after picture