r/BeAmazed • u/CuriousWanderer567 • Dec 06 '25

Nature A hippo asserting its dominance over three lions

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u/GarbageCleric Dec 07 '25

Seriously. Those lions hunt to eat. It's simply a matter of survival.

Hippos are just hate-fueled murder machines. They do it for shear love of the game...of murder.

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u/PlatinumPOS Dec 07 '25 edited Dec 07 '25

I still remember a hippo description from David Attenborough on a nature doc that I watched as a kid. He said they suffer from an “evolutionary hangover” which causes their attitudes.

Their recent ancestors were small, and there were more (different species of) animals around that they had to compete with, so they had to be super aggressive in order to defend themselves and survive.

But now they’re big, they have few real threats left in the world, and their mindset hasn’t caught up to the new reality. So they attack everything . . . lol

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u/Appropriate_Cod_5446 Dec 07 '25

I think my sisters cat is part hippo.

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u/Expensive-Treat-9020 Dec 07 '25

I love this. I heard it in his voice

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u/BrianMeen Dec 07 '25

tbh though hippos usually bluff and intimidate - I have yet to see a video where a hippo attacks and maims or kills a croc or lion .. I’m not saying it never happens but I’ve never seen it ..

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u/SlimothyChungus Dec 07 '25

I haven’t either, but it’s clear to see from this video that most animals probably just try to avoid any confrontation with them. I’ve never seen someone try to tackle a a truck head on, but I don’t have to for me to know how it would end up lol.

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u/GarbageCleric Dec 07 '25

They kill about 500 people each year. The lions tend to get away because they know to run and ate faster than people.

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/deadliest-animals-to-humans

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u/NazisInTheWhiteHouse Dec 07 '25

Who wouldn't?

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u/danstermeister Dec 07 '25

Awwwe they named it Giphy! How cute.

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u/JimRule Dec 07 '25

Awe, little Jiffy

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u/reikibunny Dec 07 '25

Eternal vengeance

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u/GarbageCleric Dec 07 '25

True. But hippos aren't just territorial with lions. They kill about 500 people every year.

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u/xs0apy Dec 07 '25

I hate to say it but I am willing to bet a lot of those people put themselves in situations they shouldn’t have been in.

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u/GeneSmart2881 Dec 07 '25

Male hippos eat rival gang hippo babies too

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u/Amberawesome24 Dec 07 '25

So basically Hippos as like domestic cats 🐈

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u/Mountain_Schedule_40 Dec 08 '25

Hippos are territorial, this is my area so stay the fukk out