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Hippos can't swim. Too much bone density and mass.
You clearly never been hunted by a hippo on water
No they're right, they literally just run and jump underwater
Yet despite all these adaptations for life in the water, hippos can't swim—they can't even float! Their bodies are far too dense to float, so they move around by pushing off from the bottom of the river or simply walking along the riverbed in a slow-motion gallop, lightly touching the bottom with their toes, which are slightly webbed, like aquatic ballet dancers.
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/hippo
Honestly that's scarier to me
Maybe that's why they're "water horses", because they gallop underwater.
Yeah, not disputing that, but try to tell them while they’re eating your skull like it’s a watermelon snack
Edit: I know they’re herbivores. Doesn’t change the facts
Oh certainly, they'll fuck you up way more readily and viscerally than a horse ever would, I just always wondered about the logic of their name.
Yeah water horse sounds right
Man, i actually have in a little riverboat in kenya. It's absolutely terrifying. There were some other tourists on the boat who treated it like a circus show the hippo did for them. They cheered every time it jumped out of the water getting closer and closer. I was sitting very close to the boat captain, who was sweating bullets.
Are you required to "swim" in the traithlon, or do you have to do a distance across a body of water?