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16 June 2008

Video of hippos chasing a boat First chase starts at about 1:12 mark. Hippos are supposed to be cute, dammit, not terrifying!

post by: Atom Eyes at: 14:33 | 7 comments

"Hippos are supposed to be cute" they are very dangerous.

posted by arse_hat 16 June | 14:44

It turns out in the real world hippos fucking kill people.

posted by jason's_planet 16 June | 15:36

Oh, man, I can't find the quote, but someone on Metafilter once stated that there must be some sort of legal requirement that any thread about hippos had to include the statement that they kill more people in Africa than any other animal.

posted by mrmoonpie 16 June | 15:45

Ah, there it is.

posted by mrmoonpie 16 June | 15:47

*stops googling for deadly hippo citation, is afraid of being accused of the hippo godwin*

posted by mudpuppie 16 June | 17:30

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by arse_hat 16 June | 18:56

You know who else killed a lot of people in Africa? Yeah... Hi~~tler~~ppos

Dammit, mudpuppie, if only I had photoshop here, I'd so make a lolcat of "Adolf Hippo iz in Afrika, killing ur peeps!"

posted by qvantamon 17 June | 00:24

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