Hippos Can Fly

[SueEllen]

Though I wouldn't stand close to one to find out

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...n-get-airborne

..And so to researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in North Mymms, Hertfordshire, whose painstaking examination of footage of the creatures revealed that when the hefty herbivores reach top speed they do indeed take off.

Video showed hippos got all four feet off the ground at once up to 15% of the time when thundering along at full pelt, often to chase off hippo rivals.

[WTFH]

They are the most dangerous mammal in Africa, killing more humans than any other.

[woody1]

They were also the only animals that the authorities in Columbia didn't fancy rounding up at Pablo Escobar's private zoo. They subsequently escaped and are now breeding/thriving in the wild.

[SueEllen]

They were also the only animals that the authorities in Columbia didn't fancy rounding up at Pablo Escobar's private zoo. They subsequently escaped and are now breeding/thriving in the wild.

That always makes me giggle when they show a documentary/travel show about Columbia and talk about Pablo Escobar's hippos.

They wanted to cull them last year but there was a backlash. So they decided to move them - https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...t-colombia-35m

[Uncle Albert]

That reminds me, we need to buy the mother in law a birthday present.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Fly my pretties, Fly!

[Zigenare]

They are the most dangerous mammal in Africa, killing more humans than any other.

If you count humans as mammalian then you will find your statement to be incorrect.

[WTFH]

If you count humans as mammalian then you will find your statement to be incorrect.

GPWM.
They are the most dangerous non-human mammal in Africa.

[Zigenare]

GPWM.
They are the most dangerous non-human mammal in Africa.

There you go, you've learnt something. Jolly well done!