An elephant would win in a fight against a hippo due to its immense size, weight, and strength, with even a protective mother elephant capable of fending off or injuring a hippo, though hippos are incredibly dangerous and aggressive, preferring to avoid such direct confrontations with elephants in the wild. While a hippo has a powerful bite and thick skin, an elephant's tusks, trunk, and sheer mass, capable of crushing bone, give it a decisive advantage, especially on land.
Being the largest land mammal, the elephant has tremendous strength and is also very protective, particularly towards its young ones. Though the horns of a rhino can be very powerful, and hippos are very aggressively dangerous, the weight as well as the social nature of elephants gives them the utmost position.
That's even on land. A bear is going to get absolutely decimated by a Hippo every time. Not even a contest. It takes 7 or 8 lions to even stand a chance of killing a hippo on Land, and 7 or 8 lions are far more effective than a single bear.
1. Mosquito (780,000 deaths per year) The tiny mosquito is the most dangerous animal in the world as well as the most dangerous insect, claiming 780,000 lives annually.
Although huge, a hippo's skull is fragile. A hippo in its water sanctuary is easily potted by a poacher on the bank, who puts an AK47 bullet in the “target” forehead indentation between and just above the eyes. If the bullet is properly placed, the hippo sinks straight down.
Komodo's Counterattack: Komodos can bite and use their venom to take down a hippopotamus, but it doesn't kick in immediately. Since hippos are so big and tough, they're likely to keep fighting even if they get hurt by the venom. A hippo's thick skin offers extra protection against those bites.
All elephants have one more toenail on the front feet than they do on the back feet. Elephants no 3 - (Watercolour marker on paper, 5.8"x 8.3") We all have our weaknesses, but did you know that the mighty elephant's weakness is the humble bee? Apparently elephants are instinctively afraid of bees.
THE LION – KING OF THE ANIMALS
How much do you know about this powerful feline predator? The lion (Panthera leo) is described as the animal king, though the tiger is in fact the largest feline predator. The lion's impressive mane belongs only to the males.
There is a common folklore belief that elephants are afraid of mice. The earliest reference to this claim is probably by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, book VIII.
Hippos aren't in the Big Five because the term originated with colonial hunters seeking the five most difficult animals to hunt on foot, and hippos, being semi-aquatic, were easier to hunt from boats, making them less challenging for the original criteria, despite being incredibly dangerous and responsible for many deaths. The original Big Five were the Lion, Leopard, Elephant, Rhino, and Cape Buffalo, chosen for the thrill and risk involved in hunting them on land.
Both elephants and hippos are powerful animals, and while elephants can be aggressive, hippos are known for their unpredictable and dangerous nature, especially when defending their space. That said the two species generally avoid each other in the wild and generally they co-exist peacefully.
A hippo would win a fight against a crocodile. Although crocodiles are large, powerful creatures, they cannot kill a fully-grown hippo. Hippos are large, round animals that are much taller than crocodiles. The only place they would be vulnerable to attack is their legs.
Hippo wins in all scenarios. They are more than 10x the body mass of a tiger and no pushovers in terms of natural offenses/defenses. Tigers are quite at home in the water, but not enough to deal with a hippo.
> The minimum suggested caliber for hunting hippo is a 375 and up, using solid bullets. I assume that means . 375 H&H magnum. If you're actually going to try to kill Hippos, you're going to want to study their anatomy carefully.
They do fight, and the hippo almost always wins.
A "silent killer" animal can refer to predators known for stealth like leopards, owls, or snakes (like the Common Krait), but also to seemingly harmless creatures like the venomous slow loris (a mammal) or even the disease-carrying mosquitoes, highlighting threats that are quiet, unassuming, or invisible, from stealth hunters to disease vectors.
The Amur leopard is one of the rarest big cats in the world, with only around 100 individuals left in the wild.
The top predators in the world include the great white shark, known for its powerful bite and hunting technique, and the lion, which hunts cooperatively in prides. Other notable predators are the grizzly bear, famous for its strength and speed, and the killer whale, which uses sophisticated hunting strategies.
Orca easily wins this, the hippo can't deal with an aquatic predator of the same size unless the orca beaches itself(which it very well might, given how shallow you've made the water).
well moose aren't known for being predators or being good at fending off animals the size of a hippo. 100 times out of 100 the hippo would win. hippo certainly has size advantages and smarter, but moose has antlers and hippos are more used to water.