• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I was just responding to the “deadliest” comment but hippos aren’t even in the top 10, unless you’re only counting mammals and then they are 3rd. Mosquitos, humans, dogs, snakes, and snails round out the top 5. I guess that fact upset some dog lovers. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

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      3 months ago

      Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to hippos. If a prankster wizard suddenly conjured a few million hippos into homes around the world you can bet they wouldn’t settle for merely snuffing out 50x-70x more humans. On the upside, they’d definitely chomp a lot of people we don’t like too

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          I encountered that a few times growing up too, I’ll never forget the ravenous way they murdered every marble they saw without a hint of concern for the devastated marble families left behind .

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        Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to humans.

        the “do better…” energy of this comment 🤣