I wish I could understand what went though the bowl of petunias’ mind when it thought ‘not again’ though…
I just read about this! The bowl of petunias was an incarnation of Agrajag. "Not again" referred to being killed by Arthur. Again.
They're referring to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Specifically, they're talking about a creature (the bowl of petunias created high above the surface of an airless world as a byproduct of a star drive powered by improbability) who has reincarnated many, many times, but in every life is killed by an otherwise inoffensive and constantly bewildered British man.
My money is on hippo every day of the week. You'd have to find a freak specimen of a rhino to compete with even an average hippo.
Rhino weight range: 1,320 - 2,090 pounds
Hippo weight range: 2,900 - 4,000 pounds
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm seeing in my googling that MOST rhino species are more massive than hippos.
It varies depending on rhino species but rhinos are generally larger.
Largest land mammals are elephant > rhino > hippo.
White rhinos are often over 3,500kg.
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Huh. I guess I thought rhinos were bigger. Well I bet one could take on a pygmy hippo!
weigh 180–275 kg (397–606 lb)
Hippos are crazy territorial, so my money would be on them. It's hard to imagine a rhino losing the battle, but the pure unfiltered rage of a hippopotamus when you trespass his territory will frighten even the boldest of rhinos.
Just made me think. Do the animals that win so much become smart because they're the top, or do they become smart then hit the top of the food chain?
Always column a and b... but I can almost guarantee mammalian apex predators get smarter the higher they are on the food chain due to increased and varied food supplies. Giving it a better and stronger reinforcement mechanism for increased intelligence...
Neat.
Ants, bees, humans, orcas, wolves, elephants, birbs...
I suppose the key is making sure to have pack behavior too. Loners like Crocs, great whites, etc too good to need to adapt plus aren't social.
Yes, actually. He seemed to think it wasn't so clear cut, but everyone here has their money on the hippo
I didn't know that, but in that case i think there are 2 scenarios that are interesting - a matchup of the ones most capable of winning a fight, and a matchup of the most common ones.
I'm surprised everyone is betting on hippos.
Rhinos are bigger (generally), heavier, move faster, have collagen armor, and have a horn.
Try getting angry at 3,500kg of pointy faced Rhino moving at 50kmh and see how much that helps.
Rhino's have low intelligence, can't swim (well), hace poor eyesight, and are smaller. My money's on the Hippo.
Hit those plungers until they break, best board game, deserves many editions and adaptations, like Monopoly.
Was that the show with the green wireframe CGI animals that they would show duking it out and eating wireframe people?
I think the rhino would be able to get a nice stab wound in once maybe twice, but after that the sheer power of the hippos bite with destroy the rhino as theyre close.
These things are tiny they wouldn't stand a chance against a rhino https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA?si=MuLBF1TxDarmbCsD
I feel like thr hippo just has a higher ring IQ. Like, rhino has got the nose but I think the hippo would just controll the pace of the fight so that it couldn't come into play
They don't, there's videos of them squaring off. The hippo opens its mouth and the rhino just sticks its horn in. I imagine neither is happy about the situation, as I wouldn't want to stick my nose in a hippo's mouth myself.