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Mark Frauenfelder at 9:38 am Fri, Apr 6, 2012

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[Video Link] Insert statistic here about how hippos kill more people every year than the distance from earth to sun if stacked end-to-end and reduced to a single day. (Via 22 Words)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • formosaman

    That must have been one hungry, hungry hippo.

    • http://twitter.com/drhypercube John P

       Aaugh – beat me to it.

  • Mister44

     IIRC, Hippos kill more people every year than any of the other animals in Africa.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/George-Herbert/100001916116969 George Herbert

      Correct, Hippos are the most human-lethal animal in the African continent in terms of fatality count.  Cape Buffalo may be more dangerous on a per incident basis, but are easier to see and hear and avoid.

    • formosaman

      Could it be, perhaps, because they are so, so hungry?

  • http://twitter.com/MrAaronSwainEsq Aaron Swain

    In the interest of promoting pro-hippo awareness….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B54Bl5b1AXw

  • http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

    y u mad hippo?

  • ROSSINDETROIT

    Seriously though, if you were a hippo wouldn’t you run around bashing into and biting stuff that pissed you off?  I sure would.

    • Mark_Frauenfelder

      The hippo also gets points for the dainty way it trots.

      • petz79

         I want a gif with that hippo trotting away and the words “haters gonna hate”.

  • DaveVonNatick

    In terms of being assholes, hippos beat owls.

  • http://www.ecoevolution.org/ Ian G

    Hit and Run defined

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QZLVTMNIPDVPOGSCTZ5P7GKK6E p!ssirk

    Up until the early ’70s, Land Rovers were guaranteed to withstand the charge of a bull rhino. Not sure about hippos.

  • Cowicide

    I have to admit I was rooting for the hippo.

  • ocschwar

    THey’re strict vegetarians. 

    Killing you is their way of asking you to go away. 

    • yadayada

       Right after the hit, I could swear I heard the hippo say “Fuckin’ tourists.”

  • qw de

    i want a pet hippo. its like the middle linebacker of the jungle

  • Daemonworks

    The North American House Hippo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLG2JP0P5JE

  • danmcenroe

    When hippos really mean business they hit you with their hurricane holler.