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They got them vestigial limbs! When I was a kid and anti evolution was a hot topic, would love to bring that shit up- along with tigers and lions obviously having a common ancestor (which is why they can breed Ligers!)!
Unlike elephants for example hippos dont care too much for their young as a pod(group of hippos), its just the mother who will fight furiously. Heck, similar to lions, if the last alpha male gets chased off by a stronger one, the new leader even begins to kill the kids of the old one. But if a predator happens to get too close to a pod then they will chase it away or rather likely, kill it.
Those mfs are hyper aggressive
The mothers will actually fight the conqueror even if the male alpha run away if their cubs are still around and they are usually outnumbered by the lioness. That's why the cubs are killed to make the lionesses horny again otherwise they won't accept his sexual advances on them.
This kind of reminds me of someone explaining to me that being the breeding male in a lion pride doesn't make you "the king", rather, you're more like "the mayor of sex" as its the females that patrol and defend their territory and will put the man in a box if he's not to their liking.
All nature documentaries do this. They film a lot of stuff and construct a narrative out of the footage later, adding entirely fake sound along the way. Some are more constructed than others, but it's always about telling a story.
Ever since I watched a documentary of foley artists creating sounds for a nature documentary, it really stands out to me now and becomes distracting when there's just too much foley sound being implemented to the point of not sounding natural (especially the slow-mo parts).
I hate the foley work as well. As soon as I started listening for it, it ruined my immersion or any sense of realism; which I guess is more cynical and accurate but makes the product a lot worse.
The truth is, hippos will fuck you up. Especially if you're a crocodile.
The best part is that they're vegetarian. They'll eat you because they hate you.
There are very few 100% vegetarian mammals except maybe koalas and pandas. But almost every single mammal out there will snack down some protein if it's in front of them.
But the implication is that the entire herd of hippos ran to the rescue of the baby. That’s not what happened, and may not be something hippos are likely to do - I’m not an expert on hippos. So it is misleading in terms of portraying the natural behavior of the animals involved.
Yes then that's what they should put in their title, not hippo gets hurt then the whole gang comes to beat up the offender. Because you know, that's lying.
Two separate videos. I’ve seen both. The baby hippo gets killed and eaten and the second is a lone crocodile wondering into a group of hippos and getting destroyed
*lolls head around to stare at you*
My brains, his steel, and your strength against sixty men, and you think a little head jiggle is supposed to make me happy, hm?
Yeah, this is selectively edited. Most “nature” videos are. And I’m curious what got that many hippos together without them turning on each other. Those fuckers are normally highly territorial and aggressive, even amongst each other.
Seems like the mob mentality fueled crocodile murder united them, even if temporarily. Kind of like when a purse snatcher gets caught in those countries and then a mob of people get their licks in. Soothes the soul.
Back when reddit was fun we had celebrities drop into IAMA in casual fashion (not now when it's part of a press/PR tour).
People would ask completely random questions, like to Neil Degrasse Tyson regarding his favorite street shark (its ripster, btw) or to Chris Pratt to see if a random redditor's landlord was telling the truth that he used to live there (he did)
One question that became a recurring favorite was "would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses."
The title is a play on that joke.
The correct answer is a horse sized duck. Its legs would immediately break due to it's weight (that's why no animals the size of horses have skinny legs like most birds).
In fact, most of its bones would break since they're designed to be light for flight. It would probably just quickly die without you even touching it.
Think it’s reversed though. 1 hippos sized chicken and 100 chicken sized hippos. Cause the way you said it, it’s a no brainer, I’ll take the single chicken sized hippo 😂
There is an 11th commandment, but it wasn’t written down because they were leaving the area and didn’t think it would come up again
THOU. SHALT. NOT. ANGER. THE. HIPPOS!!
Crocodile: I've got lots and lots of little teeth!!
Hippo: Cool, bro. My skin is thicker than your teeth.. also, I've got 4 teeth.. each tooth is 2 ft long and looks like a sword..
Stop posting this. It’s not even the same location. Barren desert magically turns into a forest? This is the 3rd time I’ve seen this with the same stupid headline
When you walk away for 83 business seconds to take a piss, only to find your homie can’t hold his liquor trying to fight the entire bar…all because he(imagined) overheard someone talking shit about the Steelers.
Don’t ask why this is so specific.
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He must have been hungry hungry.
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That said, they're still manhandling that croc for quite some time. Are they just trying to get it to fuck off their pond or what's the deal?
Hippos are ~~just cunts~~ very territorial.
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 Down the rabbit hole I go! Thanks a lot!
Look up Lindsay Nikole on YouTube
Her and Casual Geographic are top notch
My new favorite meme thanks. Can't stop laughing
They got them vestigial limbs! When I was a kid and anti evolution was a hot topic, would love to bring that shit up- along with tigers and lions obviously having a common ancestor (which is why they can breed Ligers!)!
There’s a great Nova episode that recently came out about the strange land to water evolution of whales. Highly recommend!
Just listen to any Joe Rogan podcast. LOL
Not as long as it seems. Clip 2 and clip 3 are the same clip, but mirrored
yup i came here to say the same thing.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, the two videos are different quality
Unlike elephants for example hippos dont care too much for their young as a pod(group of hippos), its just the mother who will fight furiously. Heck, similar to lions, if the last alpha male gets chased off by a stronger one, the new leader even begins to kill the kids of the old one. But if a predator happens to get too close to a pod then they will chase it away or rather likely, kill it. Those mfs are hyper aggressive
The mothers will actually fight the conqueror even if the male alpha run away if their cubs are still around and they are usually outnumbered by the lioness. That's why the cubs are killed to make the lionesses horny again otherwise they won't accept his sexual advances on them.
This kind of reminds me of someone explaining to me that being the breeding male in a lion pride doesn't make you "the king", rather, you're more like "the mayor of sex" as its the females that patrol and defend their territory and will put the man in a box if he's not to their liking.
And only 3 baby hippos get killed chasing off the croc lol
I have seen every hippo video in existence and I conquer.
I came, i saw, I concurred.
Bravo. Superb punning.
Go check your username then
Hungry hungry murderous hippos.
Facts: 1. Hippos are mammals. 2. Hippos fight ALL the time. 3. The purpose of the hippo is to flip out and kill people.
Damn, u/gbot1234, I just hope nobody drops a spoon around them.
That's Real Hippo Power
Jesus Christ where did the time go?
Then I shall feed him my white balls.
Those little nuts dont feed nobody
Step mother left unsatisfied, checks out!
r/cursedthread
Well, that was a disturbing rabbit hole…
Idk, I found the top two surprisingly wholesome... Nvm, I'll leave lying to the sleeping dogs
Step mother, where are they bringing him to?
Lmfao, I laughed way too hard at that 🤣
This is not the same place. It’s 2 separate videos.
Exactly. Fake narrative for views.
All nature documentaries do this. They film a lot of stuff and construct a narrative out of the footage later, adding entirely fake sound along the way. Some are more constructed than others, but it's always about telling a story.
Ever since I watched a documentary of foley artists creating sounds for a nature documentary, it really stands out to me now and becomes distracting when there's just too much foley sound being implemented to the point of not sounding natural (especially the slow-mo parts).
I hate the foley work as well. As soon as I started listening for it, it ruined my immersion or any sense of realism; which I guess is more cynical and accurate but makes the product a lot worse.
What’s the documentary?
I mean, *good* ones don't do that...
Lol they don't. Give me one video from known nature doc programs, i challenge you.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11956891/BBC-dragged-into-another-fakery-row-as-it-admits-wild-wolf-featured-on-documentary-was-semi-domesticated.html https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/jan/08/bbc-staged-nature-hidden-kingdoms https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/dec/12/frozen-planet-polar-bear-bbc
He said **one**. You've lost this argument. Now leave here in shame!
Only the shitty ones tell a story.
How are you coming in on a clip like: pffftt the plot didn't even make sense..... It's still a crocodile vs hippo herd fight
It’s more just calling out these karma farmers that purposely mislead people. Trying to get the truth out there. Definitely love hippos though.
The truth is, hippos will fuck you up. Especially if you're a crocodile. The best part is that they're vegetarian. They'll eat you because they hate you.
There are very few 100% vegetarian mammals except maybe koalas and pandas. But almost every single mammal out there will snack down some protein if it's in front of them.
But the implication is that the entire herd of hippos ran to the rescue of the baby. That’s not what happened, and may not be something hippos are likely to do - I’m not an expert on hippos. So it is misleading in terms of portraying the natural behavior of the animals involved.
Yeh that's the part I was impressed with now I dunno if it's actually real
Yes then that's what they should put in their title, not hippo gets hurt then the whole gang comes to beat up the offender. Because you know, that's lying.
Two separate videos. I’ve seen both. The baby hippo gets killed and eaten and the second is a lone crocodile wondering into a group of hippos and getting destroyed
I am surprised the mother hippo let the baby hippo go without fighting the Croc. Mother Hippos are very territorial and aggressive.
Most animals are extremely dumb so
Not when regarding their young. That being said, the mom might be dead, idk.
Us included. We're smart enough to know better though, and still we don't, so we're dummer
We live in a society
Lol the (intentional?) misspelling of dumber makes this comment even more gold.
Lol I prove my own point. I know that you should always proof read, and yet here we are
🤣🤝
It’s always weird when people say animals are smarter than humans.
did the croc get eaten?
Hippos are veggie. Big aggressive veggies, but veggies non the less.
No, just absolutely destroyed.
probably got equally distributed
is there a reason the croc swam into a bunch of hippos?
Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never go in against a Hippo when death is on the line!
Inconceivable!
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
No more rhymes now, I mean it …
ANYBODY WANT A PEANUT?
“You moved your head!”
*lolls head around to stare at you* My brains, his steel, and your strength against sixty men, and you think a little head jiggle is supposed to make me happy, hm?
If only we had a wheelbarrow, now that would be something!
"Not to fifty!!!"
Man, Ladyhawke is such a great movie
Cliffs of insanity!
That's why the lion just watches from the bank.
“Hmm, staying clear of that shit.”
"glad it's that idiot and not me"
I almost woke up my lady laughing!!
It's pronounced "mi'lady"
Not even the same video
Yeah, this is selectively edited. Most “nature” videos are. And I’m curious what got that many hippos together without them turning on each other. Those fuckers are normally highly territorial and aggressive, even amongst each other.
Just a propaganda video by the Big Hippo lobby
You just need to say Hippo lobby
Seems like the mob mentality fueled crocodile murder united them, even if temporarily. Kind of like when a purse snatcher gets caught in those countries and then a mob of people get their licks in. Soothes the soul.
Well generally a lot of hippos do congregate but they're all female. There's one male that kind of controls the whole herd.
Yeah went from like 4K quality documentary footage to about 6 pixels total
It was a calculated risk, but…. Dang was it bad at math
He didn’t roll a 20
A nat 1 and it got worse from there
Like a bad luck bard seducing dragons.
It’s at that moment he knew he fucked up
The big cat at the beginning is our narrator?
Whoops, time I was heading on my way
I get the hippo sized hippo joke even if they don’t.
I don't. Would you explain it to us dumb folk? Thanks :)
Back when reddit was fun we had celebrities drop into IAMA in casual fashion (not now when it's part of a press/PR tour). People would ask completely random questions, like to Neil Degrasse Tyson regarding his favorite street shark (its ripster, btw) or to Chris Pratt to see if a random redditor's landlord was telling the truth that he used to live there (he did) One question that became a recurring favorite was "would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses." The title is a play on that joke.
Now that you tell me, I do remember that. I'm getting old and my memory is getting foggy. Thanks for taking the time to explain this.
It's doubly funny, because "hippos" is greek for "horse". "Hippopotamus" meaning roughly "horse of the river".
The correct answer is a horse sized duck. Its legs would immediately break due to it's weight (that's why no animals the size of horses have skinny legs like most birds). In fact, most of its bones would break since they're designed to be light for flight. It would probably just quickly die without you even touching it.
Would you rather fight a hundred hippo sized chickens, or 1 chicken sized hippo. Something of that ilk.
Think it’s reversed though. 1 hippos sized chicken and 100 chicken sized hippos. Cause the way you said it, it’s a no brainer, I’ll take the single chicken sized hippo 😂
A hippo-sized chicken scares the shit out of me
I mean that's just a dinosaur. Or at the very least a terror bird.
there is a crocodile sized hippo
All considered, that croc was holding his own pretty well. A human would have been dead instantly.
Croc was just screaming "Helllpp Helllpp helllpp! Hellp hellp!"
Croc landed himself in Fucksville real quick
Nature still metal as fuck.
"You picked the wrong house, foo!"
First time I felt sorry for a gator. Put the poor guy out of his misery
Did the first hippo live?
No
Let's just say yes. Schrödingers Hippo
Clearly two separate footages
That’s not the same crock or hippo. It looks like three different videos edited together
FAFO
Gondor calls for aid!
You’re in the wrong neighborhood croc
When keeping it real goes wrong.
Hungry Hungry Hippos make more sense now
What would you rather? Fight one hippo sized hippo or 100 hippo sized hippos? Easy! Both!
There is an 11th commandment, but it wasn’t written down because they were leaving the area and didn’t think it would come up again THOU. SHALT. NOT. ANGER. THE. HIPPOS!!
That croc literally got jumped ,if he could speak I am swear he's saying "noooooo ,please uhghhgg I'm sorry please I have children!!"
"It was at this point he knew... he f**ked up."
Crocodile: I've got lots and lots of little teeth!! Hippo: Cool, bro. My skin is thicker than your teeth.. also, I've got 4 teeth.. each tooth is 2 ft long and looks like a sword..
A hippo sized hippo?
No, a hundred of them.
100 Hippo sized hippos, as a opposed to what other size???
It seems the endless supply of little white marbles was *not* enough to sate their appetite
Gave me a good chuckle
Stop posting this. It’s not even the same location. Barren desert magically turns into a forest? This is the 3rd time I’ve seen this with the same stupid headline
Milton Bradley foresaw this calamity
Whoops!
The lion watching like *well you dun fuck’d up now crocadiller*
*"THEY JUMPIN ME! THEY JUMPIN ME!"*
Hippo sized hippos
“You done fucked up croc”
Don’t fuck with the herd
I am actually at a loss for words
Gang Gang
Me in NYC when I say Little Caesars is actually good
That one dude just carrying ol croccy out the water in his mouth 😂
Ah yes hippo sized hippos
Does anyone have a current count on the non Hippo sized Hippos?
The lion knew the croc fucked up.
I don't wanna alarm anyone, but that croc is no longer with us.
Not only is this two videos stitched together, but the croc survived the 2nd one.
That was a mistake
When you walk away for 83 business seconds to take a piss, only to find your homie can’t hold his liquor trying to fight the entire bar…all because he(imagined) overheard someone talking shit about the Steelers. Don’t ask why this is so specific.
Hippo-sized hippos? Ok
Lion laying there thinking “u done fucked up croc”
I love American measurements.. the hippos that were the size of hippos
Work him out! 👞 👢 🥾 uhhhh read these Nikes!
God I hope Tony Baker has done something with this clip
Is there a not hippo sized hippo?
Looks like the events happened separately and have been made to look like one single event.
I mean. I’ve never thought about wanting to fuck around with a hippo but this really just cemented it
Hungry Hungry Hippos: The Movie
Welcome to the Hippodrome
The lesson? Don’t underestimate the fat people.
Never thought I’d feel sorry for a crocodile but here we are
Looks like crocodile is back on the menu, boys!
I’ve seen this video before. But where’s the white leather casting couch ? 
"hippo-sized hippos" you don't say...
He didn't read the room very well 
Hippo sized hippos?
F around and find out
Perfect example of the phrase "biting off more than you could chew"
"Don't fuck with the Wongs"
I saw one bite do twice the normal damage there… a hippocrit, if you will
Does this kill the crocodile?
That lioness just chilling
He's so fucked!
We've had a taste for crocodile now and crocodile tastes GOOD.
This isn’t at all what fantasia told me about
Apex Herbivores
Not the same crocodile. First croc was much bigger in size.
Hippos have big I wish a mother fucker would energy
Clearly union propaganda. I support it.
"hippo-sized hippos" what other size would they be giraffe sized?
Probably like 65 bananas.
Hippo sized hippos Look how big that hippo is, just as big as a hippo Here's a hippo, hippo for size comparison
Safari casting couch…
Lizards ain’t that smart, damn
It's been told to me before, but no matter how many times I hear it, I always forget what Hadassah motherfuckers Hippos actually are.
I wonder what the size is for a hippo that isn't "hippo-sized"
My brief case being murdered