One of the most dangerous and fierce animals in the animal kingdom is actually the hippopotamus. Their size, strength and aggressiveness makes them a formidable opponent against most animals. Let see how they would stack up in a fight against other apex predators from the animal kingdom.
Hippos Attributes
Hippos are dangerous creatures and are the animals responsible for more human deaths than other animals, even crocodiles. The common hippo has really thick skin, several inches thick in places and as tough as rubber, so it’s hard to pierce their hides. They also have an impressive bite force with really large teeth. The canines of a hippo are self-sharpening and are over a foot long each, and the pressure at each one of their canines is about 450 pounds per square inch.
Hippos can defend themselves in a variety of ways. Surprisingly for their size, they’re speedy runners, hitting top speeds of around 30 miles per hour, so they can flee from threats. That said they don’t often run from a fight as they can take on most predators. They use their teeth to pierce the body of other animals and use their massive size to their advantage. These highly aggressive animals are unpredictable and can attack with little provocation.
Hippo vs Tiger
Tigers use their stripes as camouflage and typically approach their prey from behind. When in a fight, they use their large paws tipped with claws and their teeth, particularly canines, to take down the threat. Their powerful forelimbs allow them to hold many animals in place, while they tear into them with their teeth.
Who would win in a fight with between a hippo and a tiger? Usually the hippo. The hippo has all of the physical advantages over a tiger, as tigers usually hunt alone and may weigh 500 pounds, as compared to the hippo weighing 4,000 pounds. The tiger might be able to scratch the hippo up some, but it’s not likely to manage to do much damage.
Winner: Hippo
Hippo vs Lion
Similar to tigers, lions use their teeth and claws to take down prey. The biggest distinction is that lions often hunt in a pack, while tigers are solitary predators. Typically female lionesses do the majority of the hunting, while the male lion or lions stays back and protects the pride.
You might be wondering who would win in a fight between a hippo and a lion? In most cases, the hippo still wins. The exception may be if a pride of lions attacks a single hippo. Even then, the hippo is significantly larger, capable of moving swiftly on land or in water, and has large teeth to defend itself. If the lions attack in the water, they might also encounter Nile crocodiles, which are quite capable of taking down a lion.
Winner: Hippo
Hippo vs Crocodile
Crocodiles feature a mouth full of sharp teeth. They also feature one of the strongest bite forces of any animal, approximately 5,000 pounds of bite force which is evenly distributed across all of the crocodiles teeth. Their teeth have evolved to grab onto prey and hold it, and they may thrash around with their prey to drown it. Crocodiles are also fast on land or in water, so most animals have trouble outrunning them.
If you see a picture from Africa of crocodiles and hippos in the water together, you’ve probably wondered who would win in a fight. Hippos are quite capable of defending themselves against crocodiles. Even though the crocs have sharp teeth and a stronger bite force, it’s difficult for them to pierce the hippo’s tough hide. In contrast, the lower canines of the hippo can bite right through a crocodile. As such, crocodiles and hippos often co-exist peacefully and leave each other alone. There have even been pictures of baby hippos chewing on crocodiles while momma hippo keeps an eye out: the crocodile knows it’s not likely to win that fight.
Winner: Hippo
Hippo vs Grizzly Bear
Grizzly bears defend themselves with their impressive size, compared to other bears. They can also puff up their hair to look even larger and are quite capable of running, swimming, and climbing trees to take care of threats. They have large paws with claws, as well as large teeth.
Is all of that enough to let a grizzly bear win in a fight with a hippo? Not a chance. If they were to get in a fight, the hippo wins, hands down. Hippos are significantly larger than grizzly bears and are speedy themselves, so they quite able to attack. The hippo is protected with its tough skin from the bear’s teeth and claws, allowing it to use its large size, around ten times that of a grizzly bear, to defeat the bear.
Winner: Hippo
Hippo vs Elephant
Elephants use their large body size and tusks to take care of threats. While they don’t generally bite to defend themselves, they can stomp a predator. That’s how they often fight: running into an enemy and knocking them over with their body size before stomping them into submission. Even though these animals are herbivores, they won’t shy away from a fight, especially to protect their young.
So, in the tough wilds of Africa, who would win in a fight between an elephant and a hippo? You might be surprised, but the elephant is likely to win. They are much larger than a hippo and can knock the hippo over and stomp it. This has even been recorded, especially when a baby elephant gets too close to a threatening hippo. The elephants may also attack en masse to protect their own, often encountering a single enraged hippo.
Winner: Elephant
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They forgot the Black Rhino. Likely could take down a hippo.
They even forgot the white rhino too.
No the hippo is way more powerful plus white rhinos are quite docile.
A adult rhino can take down a hippo.
Its skin is also tougher and its fatal horn.
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Nope not a chance š¦ are afraid of hippos as due to their big fatal jaws and aggressive nature, even if a rhino tries to encounter them, just after sometime hippo shows off their aggressiveness and huge jaws which somewhat scares a rhino and they run away.
Yup,u are right,hippos are just way too overpowered,they have better eyesight ad can bite the rhino,but the rhino although has a horn,they cannot at all hit the hippo since their eyes are garbage and they cannot see well at all,so the hippo wins
No Animal wants the smoke with the almighty Hippo. The lion king is supposed to be king of the jungle? foh
Honestly why is lion āking of the jungleā when tigers are bigger, stronger, smarter, faster, and actually live in the jungle.
while the fact that Lions are called “king of the jungle” is wrong
the reason why they’re called “king” and most of the time favoured over Tigers is because of their courage and bravery. Tigers don’t get in conflicts because they don’t want to risk getting injured. Lions are more like “just do it, and come out on top”
and my favourite big cats are Lions.
Lions don’t live in the jungle, Einstein.
Yea even an Anaconda can defeat a hippo
No they canār because anacondas are from central & south America but hippos are from Africa except for a small herd in Columbia that escaped from Pablo Escobarās private zoo and bred
Yea even an snake any snake can defeat a hippo
no.
Rhino goes hippo and its over!
Ken m what a trash human! You think a baby hippo can kill a adult elephant? Grizzly Bears are fearsome predators and can hunt animals like moose and crocodiles.
Black Rhinos/One Horned Rhinos do exist and they are only 72lb smaller than the hippo.
Elephants are absolute beasts and can easily handle a hippo.
shut up,the hippo wins it is too agressive and fighting experienced for the stupid dumb headed blind rhino
You are being very mean, you should speak nicer than that. I am telling your mother and you will be grounded and will not be able to play XBOX for another 2 weeks.
Whoever wrote this does not know what fast is, apparently. The grizzly bear can run almost twice as fast as a hippo, and is quite a bit smarter. The bear can outmanuever the hippo, hands down.
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Hippos outweigh bears by about 8:1.
Adult male brown bears way up to 1500 + pounds, when we purchase and wood give a hippo a heck of a fight.
Bruh. Hippo would stomp any snake. Black Rhinos don’t exist and if they did they’d be afraid of hippos. Bears are trash mammals and their claws could never penetrate the sheir girth of a hippos skin. Even a baby hippo would absolutely destroy any other adult animal. I’d like to see you guys try and fight/outrun the statistically deadliest animal in Africa.
you overestimate the hippo. bears are not trash mammals and in fact they are the second-largest predator of the world and have one of the strongest bite forces of the world today. Black rhinos do exist and they are powerful animals. They out size the hippo and have a nasty front horn. Hippos are powerful animals, but against a black rhino their toast. And yes, I could easily outrun that fat animal that cant even swim.
Only if a black rhino had a charging run up, in close combat it’s an easy victory for the hippo.
yep you are write
Which animals can actually kill a hippo?
If an Elephant Seal came across, it would probably win the fight, it is larger, stronger and these giant seals can weigh up to 8,818lbs (4,000kg) much larger than a hippo, who weighs at 4,900lbs (2,200kg).
The Southern Seals are the largest pinnipeds, and have a powerful bite of 900 pounds per square inch, but that is one of their disadvantages to the hippo, who’s bite is 1,800 pounds per square inch. An Elephant Seal can brutally bodyslam eachother with their 8cm skin.
Elephant Seal would’ve won 56.7% of the time.
Great White Sharks are the monsters of the sea, and are almost apex predators. Their bite force of 1,750 pounds per square inch and weighing up to 5,000lbs. The shark and the hippo make up for a fair fight since the size difference isn’t big. A hippo can probably defeat it though.
Great White Shark wouldv’e won 50% of the time.
White Rhino’s are barely bigger than a hippo, but they are the same strength, a rhino can eliminate any land animal smaller than themselves with it’s horn. But then again, a hippo’s tusks are about as strong as the white rhino’s horn.
These 2 animal’s skin is fairly thick.
This fight is easily a 50% for a rhino and 50% for a hippo.
African Elephant:
This is obvious, an elephant is over 3 times bigger than a hippo, they can weigh 15,000lbs, which makes them the strongest and largest herbivores as well as the largest land animal. An elephant will most likely win although their skin is 3x less thick.
Elephant Wins 99.75% of the time
just be quiet,Tyranosaurus rex wins against even freaking elephant seals which have a terrible bite force and weight compared to Trex:weight:10 tons or 10000 kg and bite force:6 tons or 6000 kg,Trex will twreck it,get it!
well clearly, elephants have very large tusks that can also kill a baby hippo
Orcas can also make quick work of hippos but that’ll never happen. Rhinos are in the same field as elephants when it comes to facing a hippo cause its skin is so dense only long spear-like weapons like rhino horn or elephant tusk or even another hippo can penetrate it enough to kill it quickly.
Is all of that enough to let a grizzly bear win in a fight with a hippo
my name fatboyjohnfresh it is what it is the hippo wins! its thursday i might go to the bar and see if a little cum bucket needs this loose $100 im trying to hump a face tonight!
lion, tiger bear all win
No.
poor tyrant lizard king. what happens against an orca?
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Maybe not African crocodiles, but Saltwater crocodiles that can weigh up to 3300lb could be a match for the hippo. Large males can take down large bovines and with their bite force technique could even shred a hippo’s skin
Did we forget the ultimate apex predator, humans? I think they can easily take down a hippo, elephant, great white, or orca. Even blue whales don’t stand a chance against them when humans put their collective mind to decimating a species.
I think they both have an equal chance to win 50/50
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I happen to be curious with what damage a hippo can cause. But I hear that a honey badger is awfully fierce. I’m curious to know is who would win in a fight between the two.
African male lion is the only predator than can take down a male hippo alone,that is why he is the king of beast,aAfrican male lion is stronger,fearless,powerful than any bear or tiger in the planet, 2 Large male african lion can take down adult elephant
African male lion is the only predator that can take down a male hippo alone
Oh yeah well Humans will beat Hippo’s because of tools and being able to adapt figure out what they need to do to survive.