I am having difficulty understanding whether it broke its own cycle and is now crying, or broke someone else’s cycle and is now being intimidating.
Technically, hippos don’t swim. They run along the ground. So if you pick a deep enough body of water, you might still have a chance.
It’s actually not too easy to ride at 30km/h
Presumably the hippo also needs to ride a bike on that stretch, so they probably aren’t managing their full running speed.
You’re right, they’re probably faster than their running speed given humans are faster on a bicycle than running too.
Maybe if you engineered some new pedal vehicle that is no longer really a bike, but hippos have neither the build nor the kind of gross motor skills (or prehensile forelimbs) needed to be successful as a high-level bicyclist.
Fucking racist.
racer.
How’s their endurance?
Probably shit, like most mammals.
Edit: I looked it up, and they can maintain 29-40km/h charge for about 150m.
Whelp, I’m dead. GG hippo.
This reads like Deep Thoughts… by Jack Handey
“If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope he likes enchiladas, because that’s what he’s getting.”
Ima be honest it can probably beat me on a bicycle as well.
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Are these hippo sprint speeds, or real proper endurance speeds?
There’s no way hippos have the long-distance endurance of humans. Pretty much everything is faster than humans at sprinting, but for endurance running, humans are next level. (Not me of course, I’m not really fit enough to be called human in this context.)
Hippos can’t swim. Too much bone density and mass.
Are you required to “swim” in the traithlon, or do you have to do a distance across a body of water?
You clearly never been hunted by a hippo on water
No they’re right, they literally just run and jump underwater
Yet despite all these adaptations for life in the water, hippos can’t swim—they can’t even float! Their bodies are far too dense to float, so they move around by pushing off from the bottom of the river or simply walking along the riverbed in a slow-motion gallop, lightly touching the bottom with their toes, which are slightly webbed, like aquatic ballet dancers.
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/hippo
Honestly that’s scarier to me
