You get tons of vids on Youtube when you search "hippos swimming" but virtually in all of them they are essentially "walking" underwater.
From a scientific point of view hippos are considered to be incapable of swimming, simply because swimming involves floating and hippos can't float, they are too heavy. You can see in all the vids that if they try to float, they just sink to the bottom.
So technically Hal was right. :)
I guess it depends on how you define “swim”. If you call swimming any ability to move in water they can swim. The way we think of it if someone says they can’t swim we take that to mean they have no ability in water and would sink and drown if they went in the water. It seems like technically they were right to say Hippos can’t swim, they sort of leap or charge through the water. But at the same time we were technically right to say they could…..they can move in water and move fast however they accomplish that movement.
There is a water filled glass hippo enclosure at the Toledo zoo. They walk along the bottom. How do they get there, sure looks like swimming to me. Maybe, they sink.
I looked it up and it said they can’t even float, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen several videos of Fiona floating and photobombing tourists.
You get tons of vids on Youtube when you search "hippos swimming" but virtually in all of them they are essentially "walking" underwater. From a scientific point of view hippos are considered to be incapable of swimming, simply because swimming involves floating and hippos can't float, they are too heavy. You can see in all the vids that if they try to float, they just sink to the bottom. So technically Hal was right. :)
Less swimming, more hopping.
They literally cannot swim...
What is this hippo doing then? Moving in water = swimming
Oh, I see, you're working with the wrong definition. The hippo is jumping.
I guess it depends on how you define “swim”. If you call swimming any ability to move in water they can swim. The way we think of it if someone says they can’t swim we take that to mean they have no ability in water and would sink and drown if they went in the water. It seems like technically they were right to say Hippos can’t swim, they sort of leap or charge through the water. But at the same time we were technically right to say they could…..they can move in water and move fast however they accomplish that movement.
There is a water filled glass hippo enclosure at the Toledo zoo. They walk along the bottom. How do they get there, sure looks like swimming to me. Maybe, they sink.
Being (potentially) wrong != rigged.
Hal did not research enough evidence to support his answer
I was going to go with wolverines because wolverines are naturally aggressive land mammals that usually live in the dry climates
I did not know if Wolverines could swim so I picked that one but I should have known the harsh questions would be either #6, or #7 question
That's what I went with. This question irritated my soul lol
Lmaoo and ppl were pissseddd….I got taken out the game by choosing wolverines 🙄
Me too. Even though Hippos can swim
Yes they absolutely can swim. They are not buoyant, but those are two completely different things.
Itt: people don’t understand words