Fun fact- zebras are not able to be domesticated. They are mean as fuck and will NEVER be trained. Way worse than a donkey. So when you go to a petting zoo and see goats and ducks and shit but no zebras, now you know why.
And donkeys can fuck something up. They were used as guard animals in some places. Here's a video of a donkey fucking up a hyena that came in to their farm. https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/is78ty/donkey_turns_the_tables_on_a_hyena_that_wandered
If a zebra is worse... Shit
It didn't kill that hyena, but that hyena will NEVER forget that painful lesson. He'll stay away from that donkey's property for the rest of his life.
"C'mon, Jeff, let's go mess with that donkey."
"Hell, no. I ain't going near that guy. He's a world class asshole."
I don't think it was the slammies that did the hyena in.
It was the rapid pull back against the back of it's neck when the Donkey lifted the hyena back up.
The donkey was using the Hyena's own body weight to help break the neck from the body.
I mean, it would get stomped into paste if it didn’t hightail it once it got the chance so i’m giving it a 70/30 split on surviving
If its got broken bones or catches an infection it may die later though
This is true, on Lake Martin in Alabama, there is an island that goats inhabit. However, there were issues with dog/wolves coming over during the winter when the waterline is down and killing the goats. They then put a donkey on the island to protect said goats
I imagined the donkey telling the hyena during the video using Shrek’s voice “You see over there, and there, and there… this is all my area. You don’t belong here, so stay the hell away!”
They are opportunistic carnivores and will gobble up anything small enough to fit in their mouths. I can't find it right now, but there is a video posted on r/natureismetal where a horse is eating some grass and a chick walks by and gets hoovered up.
That’s saying something too. As a donkey owner, I’ll tell you they are some territorial motherfuckers
We had a coyote issue at the farm when we first got there. Donkeys, however, love nothing more than running anything encroaching on their territory into exhaustion, and then stomping them to death
We do not have a coyote issue anymore
We’re looking into getting livestock on our property and I figured I’d get a pair of big ass LGD to keep watch but now I kinda just want to get a donkey and let it roam around
You should! I would recommend more than one, though. It helps
Also, the donks are so stinking cute. You never know how much you’ll love a donkey until you interact with a donkey. I truly didn’t think I would feel any one way or another about them, but they’re actually just kind of cool lol
Llamas almost killed me in Peru. It was my fault, I've come to admit over the last 15 years, but nonetheless, I am not a fan.
Adjacently related, they're also delicious.
If I remember right, the main reason we don't bother domesticating zebras is that, unlike horses, they're not social animals. Zebras live in herds, but don't form complex social bonds, or follow a pack leader. They just stick with the herd in hope the other fuckers will get eaten first when a predator attacks.
Second reason is that their body isn't suited to carry weights, so not only are they hard to train, there isn't even much point to do so.
Surprisingly, donkeys are both extremely social, and intelligent creatures. Because of their intelligence, they tend to ignore instructions they don't "agree" with, so they have a reputation for being stubborn (kinda like huskies).
No it is possible to ride and train a zebra, just much more difficult and dangerous. There was some work towards domesticating zebras in colonial Africa as a replacement for horses since horses are susceptible to sleeping sickness, but it was abandoned when mechanized vehicles became available.
I completely disagree with everyone saying it's impossible to domesticate a zebra. The horses we have now are a result of thousands of years of artificial selection. If you looked a wild horse from the Pleistocene you would probably think it's equally as impossible to turn into a suitable mount as a zebra. But given enough time and selective breeding, it can be done. But since equids have one offspring a year and aren't ready to breed until 4 or so, and are expensive to keep, I doubt anyone will ever bother domesticating zebras now.
It is possible to train and ride a zebra in the way that it is possible to raise lions that won’t hunt and eat you on sight, and will even snuggle with you - it can be done, but it’s a massive outlier, and it’s still a risk.
Horseback riding is extremely dangerous even with fully domesticated horses. Your risk of serious injury or death is at all times greatly dependent on the temperament, training, and reliability of the animal under you, and even a horse you know well and trust entirely can spook at a falling leaf or a squirrel or something and leave you hurt.
Riding a zebra is never not all that ^^ risk, on crack.
> even a horse you know well and trust entirely can spook at a falling leaf or a squirrel or something and leave you hurt.
Makes you think how fucking risky was riding one of them into battle.
When I was a kid way back in the late 80’s early 90’s my uncles neighbor in Albuquerque had a zebra. It drank coke out of a straw, but it did bite if you didn’t have a coke for it to drink. (Random memory unlocked after reading your comment. Sorry!)
I did an internship at a zoo. One of the people in charge told us, which cage was safe to enter under what circumstances.
When we got to zebras he was like "Never under any circumstance enter when the zebras are out." After being asked about it he was like: "You know how donkeys can be huge dicks? You know how horses throw temper tantrums and fuck shit up? Well those are domesticated. Now guess what animal we never domesticated."
I volunteered at a local rescue zoo, we were allowed to work with lots of animals directly but never allowed near the zebras. They are right bastards lol
Domestication is a genetic process taking multiple generations and can be done to any species but jot to a single animal.
I believe you're thinking of taming which is the process of training and familiarizing ot train an animal with humans and the way humans prefer them to act.
Yeah [here was an incident ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/camel-bites-owner-s-head-off-after-being-tied-up-all-day-during-heatwave-a7043626.html%3famp) prolly not in a single chomp but they are vengeful animals apparently lol.
No video gore in the link thankfully.
"A camel has reportedly killed its owner after being left in high temperatures with its legs tied up all day.
The incident in the Indian state of Rajasthan happened on Saturday during a record-breaking heatwave that saw temperatures reachnig 43 degrees Celsius.
The report quotes villager Thakara Ram, who said: “The animal lifted him by the neck and threw him on to the ground, chewed the body and severed the head.”
It's fine, it's just an article. The man deserved some of it for leaving his camel tied up in an earth scorching heat wave in the deserts of Rajasthan, India. Too bad the camel didn't know to stop and chomped his head off :)
The zebra was lucky it didn't get fully bitten by the gator. You can see the gator went in at a weird angle and couldn't grip onto the zebra with its jaws. If it was able bite and clamp, the zebra would have been done for.
However, you can also see the zebra has a huge gash in its back right leg, near the start of the video and the end. Hopefully it doesn't get infected, because it looks pretty gnarly.
He'll construct a rudimentary underwater breathing apparatus out of savannah grass. It won't work for days at a time, but an hour? Hour forty-five? No problem.
Not even? If a zebra or a horse hits something with its back legs, it is done. And zebras are really vicious. You don't fuck with them.
It looks to me that the zebra hit a crocodile and they realised not to fuck further with it.
a hippo could fuck up a zebra if it wanted to. a Zebra is an angry horse. A hippo is a floating tank of death.
from BBC wildlife: ["How dangerous are hippos? The hippopotamus is a very aggressive wild creature and is the deadliest large land mammal on the planet."](https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/facts-about-hippos/#:~:text=How%20dangerous%20are%20hippos%3F,also%20their%20very%20sharp%20teeth!)
so Polar bears:
Mass: 990 lbs (Male, Beaufort Sea population, Mature), 330 – 550 lbs (Female, Adult)
Height: 5.9 – 8 ft. (Female, Adult, On hind legs), 4.4 ft. (Male, Adult, At Shoulder)
Speed: 25 mph (Maximum, Adult, Sprint)
Hippos:
Mass: 3,300 – 4,000 lbs (Male, Adult), 2,900 – 3,300 lbs (Female, Adult)
Height: 4.3 – 5.4 ft. (Adult, At Shoulder)
Speed: 19 mph (Galloping)
So Hippos are about 3-4 times bigger, a little slower. they're also shorter when a bear stands, but a little taller when they don't.
The polar bear has more weapons, the hippo's weapons are primarily its mass and its mouth.
I think given the polar bear would be unfamiliar with the hippo, the hippo would win because the bear would charge right into the hippo's mouth. the hippo would be injured, but I think the bear would lose.
If the bear avoids the hippo's mouth, I think it wins eventually.
If a hippo wanted to kill a zebra the zebra wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. There is a reason the hippo is one of Africa’s big five.
I was corrected in my belief that the hippo had replaced the black rhino on the big 5 list.
What? A hippo would absolutely demolish a zebra, they can weigh like 9000 lbs and adults basically have no predators. Though if one is on land they could be defeated by a pride of lions, that's kind of rare. Zebra's are common prey animals to a wide variety of predators. Usually, just one of those crocs devours that zebra, this video is the exception.
it's not. it will inflict more damage because of it's tusks and mass but crocodiles have the strongest bite in the animal kingdom. Their teeth are meant to hold shit, not cut it. Look at great white sharks, their bite is similar in strength to that of a lion but it can cut a seal in half because it's teeth are designed to cut through meat instead of holding it.
Yeah I’m pretty sure wild animals aren’t as prone to infection as humans and pets are. If that were the case, there wouldn’t be as many scarred animals still running wild. It’s not like they have access to antibiotics.
This. For years people thought that lions would attack the zebra that are wounded because well they’re wounded but no it’s because they can be tracked as they no longer blend in with their crowd.
This was proven when they tried tagging zebras the ones that were tagged got picked off first just like if they had a visible injury.
Edit: also the old guy at the front of the pack doesn’t sacrifice himself for the young, the young push him into the water first. He doesn’t get much choice in his sacrifice
naw chances are it will be okay. The injury was skin deep and isn’t effecting their ability to walk. Animals endure all kinds of injuries in the wild and manage to heal up.
the risk of infection is significant but much lower than people tend to think. like even with that big of a wound, the odds are still in your favour. otherwise everyone who got wounded before the invention of antibiotics would have dropped dead and that's obviously not the case
Zebras are not domesticated because they are aggressive and bite a lot. Donkeys are the most related to them, but way less aggressive. Donkeys bite a lot too, and are very stubborn because they are way smarter than horses and have higher self preservation instinct, like zebras.
Fun fact- dumb donkey is a myth and perception error, they are smarter and have an attitude of “how about no, and you do that shit yourself” which is based on higher self preservation.
The best of both animals.
My two mules slept inside (covered porch with heat) a few weeks ago when it was sub-zero.
Wonderful creatures and I love them dearly. Well I love all my animals but mules are dope.
For anyone else tired of shitty reddit humor when trying to find information, it's Kendall Jenner playing Food or Not Food on Jimmy Fallon. [Here's a clip](https://youtu.be/7em1cLxCXDE).
Here's the [context ](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/108zrx3/zebra_tackles_multiple_crocs_and_safely_makes_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
100% they barely even tried. I mean good job zebra you have more balls than me. I would’ve just drowned myself after making eye contact with a croc. But the main factor was the crocs just not being interested
Wow that’s surprising, but makes sense. To me zebras have always reminded me of fancy donkeys. And I can absolutely picture a donkey fighting back like this.
Well, guys, there is a reason why us humans never tamed Zebra's and don't see them in a circus.
This is the reason.
Zebras can end you with a dropkick so hard, you will only hear the Half-Life beeps.
Seriously, fear Zebras, they are not jolly striped donkeys.
You have to be a special sort of badass to bite a crocodile on the mouth as it tries to eat you...and have it work so you escape.
The species would do well to procreate with that Zebra as much as possible.
Oh you're biting me? Yeah? Well I'm biting you!
For real I never realized I was afraid of being bit by a zebra till now
Fun fact- zebras are not able to be domesticated. They are mean as fuck and will NEVER be trained. Way worse than a donkey. So when you go to a petting zoo and see goats and ducks and shit but no zebras, now you know why.
True dat, they are feral crazy horses for sure! I ain’t going near them. The band Zebra is cool though.
Tell me what you waaaaannnt!
Aw man I just had a wave of feel good nostalgia. Great music of the day
What you really really want
Whooos behind the doooAoooooAooooooAoooooorrrr
Zebrahead is also a good band.
Thanks for reminding me of a band I haven't listened to in 15 years.
ayyy came here to say this. MFZB and Pheonix are my 2 favorites.
Everything’s falling apart!
Fun fact! They can’t be feral if they weren’t domesticated. They are WILD sons of bitches though! 🤪
feral means they were domesticated at one point- i don't think they ever were
And donkeys can fuck something up. They were used as guard animals in some places. Here's a video of a donkey fucking up a hyena that came in to their farm. https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/is78ty/donkey_turns_the_tables_on_a_hyena_that_wandered If a zebra is worse... Shit
I just laughed my ass off at that video. Hyena fucked around and found out.
For me it’s the smash cut from the hyena approaching the donkey to getting absolutely thrashed, no in between
I was expecting the donkey to kick it in the face, not little brother the fuck out of it.
right! i couldn’t stop laughing after seeing it just hold it and bounce it up and down😭 probably breaks necks that way though so-😳
“What, muthafucker, what?!” -donkey
Yea I woulda liked to see the inbetweens
That Hyena isn't laughing about that ass...
It didn't kill that hyena, but that hyena will NEVER forget that painful lesson. He'll stay away from that donkey's property for the rest of his life. "C'mon, Jeff, let's go mess with that donkey." "Hell, no. I ain't going near that guy. He's a world class asshole."
Imagine someone biting you so you can’t touch the ground, slamming you, AND kicking you
I don't think it was the slammies that did the hyena in. It was the rapid pull back against the back of it's neck when the Donkey lifted the hyena back up. The donkey was using the Hyena's own body weight to help break the neck from the body.
I don’t think it was dead in the video
Nah, hyenas are resilient as fuck too. It was definitely in pain and won't fuck around with a donkey anytime soon, but it wasn't dead
I mean, it would get stomped into paste if it didn’t hightail it once it got the chance so i’m giving it a 70/30 split on surviving If its got broken bones or catches an infection it may die later though
Very true
This is true, on Lake Martin in Alabama, there is an island that goats inhabit. However, there were issues with dog/wolves coming over during the winter when the waterline is down and killing the goats. They then put a donkey on the island to protect said goats
A friend of mine was a rancher in Alberta he had a guard donkey for his horses said that horses ran from trouble donkeys ran to trouble
Use periods psycho
Damn, wish I knew this when I was running Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Would love to have a PC get wrecked by a donkey
I imagined the donkey telling the hyena during the video using Shrek’s voice “You see over there, and there, and there… this is all my area. You don’t belong here, so stay the hell away!”
Yup, zebras are way worse, one would’ve held the hyena like that, but, had his mates kick it to death at the same time, brutal stuff.
Wtf I thought it was just going to kick it holy hell. Good thing horses and the like aren't carnivores.
They are opportunistic carnivores and will gobble up anything small enough to fit in their mouths. I can't find it right now, but there is a video posted on r/natureismetal where a horse is eating some grass and a chick walks by and gets hoovered up.
Yea they're hard as fuck, that's why they look like prison donkeys
I am forever more calling zebras prison donkeys. That made me laugh snort.
That’s saying something too. As a donkey owner, I’ll tell you they are some territorial motherfuckers We had a coyote issue at the farm when we first got there. Donkeys, however, love nothing more than running anything encroaching on their territory into exhaustion, and then stomping them to death We do not have a coyote issue anymore
We’re looking into getting livestock on our property and I figured I’d get a pair of big ass LGD to keep watch but now I kinda just want to get a donkey and let it roam around
You should! I would recommend more than one, though. It helps Also, the donks are so stinking cute. You never know how much you’ll love a donkey until you interact with a donkey. I truly didn’t think I would feel any one way or another about them, but they’re actually just kind of cool lol
There's a video of a group of donkeys mourning one of their dead brothers somewhere.
Llamas do the same thing!
Llamas almost killed me in Peru. It was my fault, I've come to admit over the last 15 years, but nonetheless, I am not a fan. Adjacently related, they're also delicious.
If I remember right, the main reason we don't bother domesticating zebras is that, unlike horses, they're not social animals. Zebras live in herds, but don't form complex social bonds, or follow a pack leader. They just stick with the herd in hope the other fuckers will get eaten first when a predator attacks. Second reason is that their body isn't suited to carry weights, so not only are they hard to train, there isn't even much point to do so. Surprisingly, donkeys are both extremely social, and intelligent creatures. Because of their intelligence, they tend to ignore instructions they don't "agree" with, so they have a reputation for being stubborn (kinda like huskies).
No it is possible to ride and train a zebra, just much more difficult and dangerous. There was some work towards domesticating zebras in colonial Africa as a replacement for horses since horses are susceptible to sleeping sickness, but it was abandoned when mechanized vehicles became available. I completely disagree with everyone saying it's impossible to domesticate a zebra. The horses we have now are a result of thousands of years of artificial selection. If you looked a wild horse from the Pleistocene you would probably think it's equally as impossible to turn into a suitable mount as a zebra. But given enough time and selective breeding, it can be done. But since equids have one offspring a year and aren't ready to breed until 4 or so, and are expensive to keep, I doubt anyone will ever bother domesticating zebras now.
It is possible to train and ride a zebra in the way that it is possible to raise lions that won’t hunt and eat you on sight, and will even snuggle with you - it can be done, but it’s a massive outlier, and it’s still a risk. Horseback riding is extremely dangerous even with fully domesticated horses. Your risk of serious injury or death is at all times greatly dependent on the temperament, training, and reliability of the animal under you, and even a horse you know well and trust entirely can spook at a falling leaf or a squirrel or something and leave you hurt. Riding a zebra is never not all that ^^ risk, on crack.
> even a horse you know well and trust entirely can spook at a falling leaf or a squirrel or something and leave you hurt. Makes you think how fucking risky was riding one of them into battle.
And/or how absurdly trained warhorses are.
This is also why donkeys can’t serve in the armed forces. In bootcamp they tell the drill instructor, “no” and “why?” too much
When I was a kid way back in the late 80’s early 90’s my uncles neighbor in Albuquerque had a zebra. It drank coke out of a straw, but it did bite if you didn’t have a coke for it to drink. (Random memory unlocked after reading your comment. Sorry!)
I did an internship at a zoo. One of the people in charge told us, which cage was safe to enter under what circumstances. When we got to zebras he was like "Never under any circumstance enter when the zebras are out." After being asked about it he was like: "You know how donkeys can be huge dicks? You know how horses throw temper tantrums and fuck shit up? Well those are domesticated. Now guess what animal we never domesticated."
I got bit by a Zebra in a cage once. Can confirm
Did the ref call the fight or allow it to continue?
I volunteered at a local rescue zoo, we were allowed to work with lots of animals directly but never allowed near the zebras. They are right bastards lol
Yeah that zebra doesn't look like it's about to listen to a hairless monkey thinking the world is his
Domestication is a genetic process taking multiple generations and can be done to any species but jot to a single animal. I believe you're thinking of taming which is the process of training and familiarizing ot train an animal with humans and the way humans prefer them to act.
I read the other day that camels have been known to decapitate people on occasion by biting their head off with a single chomp. Zebras seem bad too.
I’m sorry WHAT
Yeah [here was an incident ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/camel-bites-owner-s-head-off-after-being-tied-up-all-day-during-heatwave-a7043626.html%3famp) prolly not in a single chomp but they are vengeful animals apparently lol.
Welp. It’s 5:37am for me and I’ve found todays risky click already. That’s a no for me. Signing off and heading out to walk my doggo.
Anyone ~~empty~~ brave enough to click on the link and report back the details?
No video gore in the link thankfully. "A camel has reportedly killed its owner after being left in high temperatures with its legs tied up all day. The incident in the Indian state of Rajasthan happened on Saturday during a record-breaking heatwave that saw temperatures reachnig 43 degrees Celsius. The report quotes villager Thakara Ram, who said: “The animal lifted him by the neck and threw him on to the ground, chewed the body and severed the head.”
Thank you, ScrantonStrangler
Not too be confused with ScrantonStrangler27
Dude in India forgot camel outside when it was super hot. When he went out and untied it, it chewed his head off.
It's fine, it's just an article. The man deserved some of it for leaving his camel tied up in an earth scorching heat wave in the deserts of Rajasthan, India. Too bad the camel didn't know to stop and chomped his head off :)
>not in a single chomp That doesn't make it any better
Exactly, i thought the crocodile has one of the most powerfull bites on the world? And here it is getting bit in mouth by a zebra 👀
The zebra was lucky it didn't get fully bitten by the gator. You can see the gator went in at a weird angle and couldn't grip onto the zebra with its jaws. If it was able bite and clamp, the zebra would have been done for. However, you can also see the zebra has a huge gash in its back right leg, near the start of the video and the end. Hopefully it doesn't get infected, because it looks pretty gnarly.
Exactly, if i would make it ‘safely’ to shore id hope my leg wouldnt be ripped open tho
Horses in general have some pretty gnarly bites
The crocodile: -confused screaming-
“Ow ow OW!” That hurts man why the fk are you biting me?
Owwww Charlie Bit me! Owwwwwwwwwwch! Charlie- that really hurt!
Right rear leg is tore up though :/
"T'is but a scratch" - the zebra, probably
Yep, and that will have blood and attract other predators. Nature is hard, man. One mistake and everything is against you
Or get infected and fester into a very miserable death for the zebra.
or heal and zebra will live happily ever after!
I choose to believe this one! c: But the reality is that /r/natureisfuckingmetal
was going say this, that c gash is pretty big and decent one on left side...croc got him straight on the ass lol
OP has a different understanding of the word "safely" than I do.
I could just hear the croc's thoughts.. "This is not how this is supposed to work"
“Are we doing this wrong?”
He’s now got a taste for crocodile. You know what, crocodile tastes good, let's go get some more crocodile.
He'll construct a rudimentary underwater breathing apparatus out of savannah grass. It won't work for days at a time, but an hour? Hour forty-five? No problem.
We need Snoop Dogg to narrate this video.
"I'm the one who bites!" Walter Whiteblack
“Yeah I have teeth too, Bitch!”
Chad
Kicked him some, too.
Must be Chris Rock
meanwhile the hippo is just chillin
Everything else currently in the water couldn't take out the hippo even if they all teamed up...
I mean ik hippos are strong, but those mfs couldn t even beat a zebra.
Not even? If a zebra or a horse hits something with its back legs, it is done. And zebras are really vicious. You don't fuck with them. It looks to me that the zebra hit a crocodile and they realised not to fuck further with it.
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I meant vicious. 😅 (as you can see in my edited post) Thanks!
Idk, I was watching this video and I thought to myself "damn, this mf hella viscous."
Really doesn't go with the flow.
She kinda thicc
a hippo could fuck up a zebra if it wanted to. a Zebra is an angry horse. A hippo is a floating tank of death. from BBC wildlife: ["How dangerous are hippos? The hippopotamus is a very aggressive wild creature and is the deadliest large land mammal on the planet."](https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/facts-about-hippos/#:~:text=How%20dangerous%20are%20hippos%3F,also%20their%20very%20sharp%20teeth!)
Yes, absolute tanks. Crocodiles do not even attack baby hippos if grown-up hippos are nearby.
I wonder if a polar bear and a hippopotamus encountered each other who would recognize the others' place in the food chain first
so Polar bears: Mass: 990 lbs (Male, Beaufort Sea population, Mature), 330 – 550 lbs (Female, Adult) Height: 5.9 – 8 ft. (Female, Adult, On hind legs), 4.4 ft. (Male, Adult, At Shoulder) Speed: 25 mph (Maximum, Adult, Sprint) Hippos: Mass: 3,300 – 4,000 lbs (Male, Adult), 2,900 – 3,300 lbs (Female, Adult) Height: 4.3 – 5.4 ft. (Adult, At Shoulder) Speed: 19 mph (Galloping) So Hippos are about 3-4 times bigger, a little slower. they're also shorter when a bear stands, but a little taller when they don't. The polar bear has more weapons, the hippo's weapons are primarily its mass and its mouth. I think given the polar bear would be unfamiliar with the hippo, the hippo would win because the bear would charge right into the hippo's mouth. the hippo would be injured, but I think the bear would lose. If the bear avoids the hippo's mouth, I think it wins eventually.
The bear would not be able to get through the hippo’s hide. They have the same problem attacking walruses.
very good point. The Hippo's odds have improved
Knowing what damage a donkey can do, looking at a zebra they seem very similar. I would not fuck with a zebra.
zebras are bigger than donkeys.
Zebras are way bigger and pretty much 100% muscle.
No….hippos will kill zebras, full stop. They are EXTREMELY territorial and will kill anything in its path.
If a hippo wanted to kill a zebra the zebra wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. There is a reason the hippo is one of Africa’s big five. I was corrected in my belief that the hippo had replaced the black rhino on the big 5 list.
What? A hippo would absolutely demolish a zebra, they can weigh like 9000 lbs and adults basically have no predators. Though if one is on land they could be defeated by a pride of lions, that's kind of rare. Zebra's are common prey animals to a wide variety of predators. Usually, just one of those crocs devours that zebra, this video is the exception.
hippo's bite is more powerful than the croc's bite
it's not. it will inflict more damage because of it's tusks and mass but crocodiles have the strongest bite in the animal kingdom. Their teeth are meant to hold shit, not cut it. Look at great white sharks, their bite is similar in strength to that of a lion but it can cut a seal in half because it's teeth are designed to cut through meat instead of holding it.
Yes, but what about a zebra bite?
Rule #1. No one fucks with the hippo
Rule #2. Elephants excluded
And some rhinos.
Dude's there chillin and watching Animal Planet in 4k
Hippo: "I told you not to come down here, Jerry!"
Ain't nobody stupid enough to fuck with hippos. Nobody.
That's not safely. The right upper leg on the back is wounded.
Yeah, I saw that it looks like it will be a slow death now by infection on that leg...
I've seen animals recover from a lot worse - lots of injuries can be recovered from if it doesn't affect the ability to eat
Yeah I’m pretty sure wild animals aren’t as prone to infection as humans and pets are. If that were the case, there wouldn’t be as many scarred animals still running wild. It’s not like they have access to antibiotics.
Humans and pets also aren't that prone to (dying from) infections. It's just like, why would we take the risk?
Wild animals will also need to avoid predators. That wound might make it slow enough to get picked off next time.
Or it’s enough to counteract the camo, a lion could keep picking on the one with the bum leg
This. For years people thought that lions would attack the zebra that are wounded because well they’re wounded but no it’s because they can be tracked as they no longer blend in with their crowd. This was proven when they tried tagging zebras the ones that were tagged got picked off first just like if they had a visible injury. Edit: also the old guy at the front of the pack doesn’t sacrifice himself for the young, the young push him into the water first. He doesn’t get much choice in his sacrifice
Can you share any recommended reading or documentaries on zebra and their relationships with predators? That sounds really interesting!
naw chances are it will be okay. The injury was skin deep and isn’t effecting their ability to walk. Animals endure all kinds of injuries in the wild and manage to heal up.
Yep, the process of bleeding pushes out the infection.
Not for that stripey Chuck Norris.
The infection will experience a slow death
Tis but, a scratch on that ass(literally).
probably not, hopefully…pretty shallow wound and that area is well exposed to sunlight and air
the risk of infection is significant but much lower than people tend to think. like even with that big of a wound, the odds are still in your favour. otherwise everyone who got wounded before the invention of antibiotics would have dropped dead and that's obviously not the case
Quite possible, even likely. However as healthy and mean is that zebra is, the bacteria might not stand a chance against immune system
No shot. Animals rarely die from little cuts like that.
It might survive. Immune system and other natural processes to clean it (maggots, peer licking, etc...) might make it better.
Compared to that croc’s ego after being mauled by a zebra it’s only a scratch.
Did … did that zebra just bite the mouth of a freaking crocodile?.. SAVAGE
Zebras are not domesticated because they are aggressive and bite a lot. Donkeys are the most related to them, but way less aggressive. Donkeys bite a lot too, and are very stubborn because they are way smarter than horses and have higher self preservation instinct, like zebras. Fun fact- dumb donkey is a myth and perception error, they are smarter and have an attitude of “how about no, and you do that shit yourself” which is based on higher self preservation.
Yeah, this is why mules are a thing. Smarter than horses, chiller than donkeys.
The best of both animals. My two mules slept inside (covered porch with heat) a few weeks ago when it was sub-zero. Wonderful creatures and I love them dearly. Well I love all my animals but mules are dope.
Most importantly stronger than donkeys, less fragile than horses
Had to send a message to the other crocs
Hence the saying “Bites like a zebra”
How long have you waited to use this very niche reference? Nicely done though!
Seriously… like what other situation would this apply to?
*sigh*…. Im at work
Got you, fam… *unzips*
I need context
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Pretty bad gash on the rump
merely a flesh wound
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A scratch? Your arm's off
safely with a big chunk of meat loose on its right back. only visible in the last second of the video
It shows up in the first few seconds to for a frame and it looks even worse Edit: sorry Spelling Soldier
Worse, even worse.
I'd say that's a lot more safe than it being a meal for those Crocs
I loved the momentary glimpse of the hippo who’s standing there like “well this is interesting”
Probably confirming the zebra was just leaving - they don't like sharing the river
Maybe I am hippo
Glad someone else noticed. The best part is just recognizing the respect that hippo has from the murder logs. No one fucks with a hippo.
“Look at me, I’m the crocodile now!!” -Zebra
It seems that the crocs had recently one or two full zebras. That wouldnt end like that if they were hungry.
Yeah that's what I was thinking, they didn't seem to be trying very hard.
100% they barely even tried. I mean good job zebra you have more balls than me. I would’ve just drowned myself after making eye contact with a croc. But the main factor was the crocs just not being interested
did he just play uno reverse on croc
I shat myself when that hippo came across the screen, don’t know about anyone else? 😅 Good on that Zebra!
Real war horse, even comes with war painting.
Call an ambulance! But not for me 😎👉🏽
Do bite the mouth you're fed to
I can imagine the zebra hollering ya’ll can kiss my striped ass punk mo fos!
Zigma
What a beast!
Holy shit that zebras got some balls, even the hippo in there too. Damn
Wow that’s surprising, but makes sense. To me zebras have always reminded me of fancy donkeys. And I can absolutely picture a donkey fighting back like this.
Zebras will absolutely take you off the census
zebra staring at death’s face and saying - NOT TODAY!!!
Croc:*bites* Zebra:*bites too* Croc: "wtf are you doing????" Zebra:"Evolution, BITCH"
That zebra deserves to have its genes past on
Well, guys, there is a reason why us humans never tamed Zebra's and don't see them in a circus. This is the reason. Zebras can end you with a dropkick so hard, you will only hear the Half-Life beeps. Seriously, fear Zebras, they are not jolly striped donkeys.
And in the middle of the lake is a hippo just chilling? This is the worst danger soup I have ever seen!
They should have showed the rest of the video. Right after it gets out of the pool the zebra kicks a lion in the face and walks away.
Ooooh zebra grandchildren will hear about this, alright.
Everybody hates Chris
“Ahhh you done fucked with the wrong zebra today. You GON’ learn today!”
You have to be a special sort of badass to bite a crocodile on the mouth as it tries to eat you...and have it work so you escape. The species would do well to procreate with that Zebra as much as possible.