Why don't lions dare to eat hippos?
As the king of the steppe, the lion is almost at the top of the food chain in the African savannah, but why is such a powerful carnivore, when facing such an animal as a hippopotamus, dare not eat a hippopotamus?
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The most fundamental reason why lions dare not eat hippos is because the strength of hippos is too strong. This statement is relatively easy to understand, take the elephant, the adult body size is very large, generally can reach five or six tons, if you use force to hit the lion, you can force the lion to escape everywhere, and even the lion must climb to the tree and dare not come down. It can be seen that the herbivores in the African savannah themselves have extraordinary skills, which will make these carnivores dare not easily provoke them.
The hippopotamus is an omnivorous animal, mainly to eat grass for a living, each adult hippopotamus, a day need to eat 50 ~ 100 kg of food, it can be seen that their appetite is very large. In addition to eating aquatic weeds in the water, hippos will also climb to the shore and eat some plants.
In fact, hippos and whales are close relatives, but the skin's water retention ability is very poor, once the time on the shore is relatively long, the skin is prone to cracks, and it must return to the water as soon as possible. Therefore, the box horse will also avoid the strong sunlight as much as possible, and choose to go ashore to graze at dusk and at night.
Hippopotamus is strong, first of all, in that its weight is very heavy, and it can generally reach 2 to 3 tons in adulthood, ranking second only to elephants and rhinos on land. Although they mainly feed on herbivores, the bite force of the two jaws is very large, and the angle of the two jaws can reach more than 150 degrees when the mouth is open, which is enough to bite the lion. The bite force of the hippopotamus is much greater than that of the lion, and it is easy to cause great damage to the lion.
But the more important point is that the hippopotamus has a sense of territory, it will not be like other herbivores, if it encounters a beast such as a lion, it will only know how to escape. If lions dare to invade their territory, hippos will attack the lions directly. In fact, the animals in nature are the same, fierce and fierce, fierce and afraid of death, and hippos' temper is also very violent, sometimes even their own companions eat together, let alone lions.
Therefore, it is certainly not possible for lions and hippos to go head-to-head, even if they are male lions, only a group of lions can go up and attack a hippopotamus, but in this case, it is not necessarily possible to treat hippos. Because the hippopotamus skin is thick and thick, and the skin is at least 5 centimeters thick, the lion will not bite through it so easily in a short period of time.
Hippos themselves are active in the river, and even if they are not good at running, they do not need much time to get back into the water. When the hippopotamus returns to the water, it is equivalent to returning to a place that is more familiar to it, even if there are more lions who are not afraid. Moreover, in the water, there may be crocodiles, and crocodiles can't hurt hippos, but it is still easier to deal with lions.
At that time, the lion will be attacked on both sides, so they will not follow the hippopotamus down the river, even in normal times, basically rarely see the lion go down the river, mainly because they are still afraid of the existence of hippopotamus. At that time, when I only wanted to cross the river, I generally could only choose some shallow places to cross the river. In short, in the end they can't eat hippos. What do you think? #Hippo # #Lion #
#所见所得, very scientific #
