re: Polar bear vs hippo battle - who wins?

Hippo all day. They take out like 3000 Africans every year. It's a dangerous animal

The only things that could take a hippo on land is an elephant or a rhino.

In water, an orca or great white or sperm whale or the kracken. That's about it.

quote:

---

Hippo meat is delicious. One of the very best.

---

We could have had all we could handle too...

quote:

---

In the U.S., Representative Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana introduced the "American Hippo bill" in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamus into the bayous of Louisiana. Broussard argued that the hippopotamus would eat the invasive water hyacinth that was clogging the rivers and also produce meat to help solve the American meat crisis. The chief collaborators and proponents of Broussard's bill were Major Frederick Russell Burnham and Captain Fritz Duquesne[82][83] Former President Theodore Roosevelt backed the plan, as did the U.S. Department of Agriculture, The Washington Post, and The New York Times which praised the taste of hippopotamus as "lake cow bacon". The "American Hippo Bill" fell just short of being passed.

---

LINK

Polar bear can't kill it. Claws aren't long enough, mouth too small, will get crushed.

quote:

---

"American Hippo bill"

---

Holy shite, I can't imagine those things loose in the Louisiana bayous with the locals in their 14 foot flatbottoms.

One of them would eat the other to extinction. I'm not sure which one, though.

Hippo wins because it has a lower center of gravity than the bear.

quote:

---

Can you imagine these motherfrickers all over the state bayous and estuaries?

---

Or on a spit at a tailgate.

quote:

---

How was the rhino supposed to fight without a horn?

---

This - pissed me off to watch a hornless rhino (with a horn it likely would have won) battle one hippo and potentially two.