If I got my division order right, that’s about 5 lbs of shit per hippo per day (19841 % 4000). That’s probably a lot more than I shit each day.
Hippos
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
snapcatcher@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
“probably”
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Depends how strong the espresso was. 😅
Klear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh. I now realise I completely missed the “4000 hippos” part, but it didn’t feel strange to me because I’m so used to reading about dinosaurs.
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Underwater chem trails
Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months ago
Now compare that to factory farms and their manure run off.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Roughly 2.57632e9 lbs per day according to this report.
U.S. factory farms are raising more animals than ever before. Together, the 1.7 billion confined animals produce an appalling 941 billion pounds of manure each year — double the weight in human sewage produced by the entire U.S. population.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
And much worse managed I bet
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
But I bet their poop is great for growing the grasses they eat. It’s probably also really good for tourists, who it seems to attract and that they also eat.
adavis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hippos are herbivores. They only kill tourists for fun.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
That’s ridiculous and was clearly shown to be false by my joke.
Obviously, hippos evolved so their poop was irresistible to tourists. This is something my joke mentions to explain why hippos are always attacking tourists.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You joke, but some animals are psychopaths. I remember a news years ago of a seal raping a penguin.
/r/JustLikeUs
eyes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s important for their mental enrichment.
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
Truly the most dangerous species on earth! 🌎
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re forgetting humans.
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
Naw, I just knew that someone else would bring it up to fill in the gap:-).
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re forgetting mosquitos.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
One way to say your ex is toxic
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Me exiting the Taco Bell bathroom: “Notice me senpai!”
Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Wait, that’s just 2.25 kg of dung per hippo. That sounds like way too little. I’m pretty sure a human being could produce 2.25 kg of dung in a day with the right team spirit and some elbow grease, but you’re telling me these dainty, bashful cowards can’t do better despite weighing so much more? Pathetic.
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I imagine they also poop on land
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
A guy on Reddit did take a shit for a month and a half and it finally came out weighting 9lbs, I don’t think you can do 5lbs on the regular…
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 months ago
Interesting, my grandma once described giving birth as like pooping a bowling ball. That guy might actually somewhat understand the experience.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I just did the math and that’s the equivalent to a little more that 3 and a half Chipotle burritos. I can’t imagine trying to flush that down my toilet.
shasta@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What a bunch of lazy assholes. They could just as easily walk up on land and poop there. Do they like to stew in their own feces?
blubfisch@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
AFAIK they purposefully poop in the water to hide there. So yes, they “like” it.
dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Which is why you need to keep your Hippo INDOORS
Guamer@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Big animals produce big shits
flora_explora@beehaw.org 7 months ago
They do it on purpose though:
NewDark@hexbear.net 7 months ago
For a second I thought that 9 ton amount was for a single hippo and was shocked.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So we need to kill all the hippos?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Do these guys ever cease to be assholes?
MisterNeon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Moo Dang is pretty cute.
remer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
More like Poo Dang
Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Moo deng probably gonna grow up and murder several people
Fester@lemm.ee 7 months ago
True, but I still want to see the poop numbers just to be sure.
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I think they serve an important ecological function of pushing down marsh grass to better the flow of water. Or something like that.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Well, lawyers also serve a useful purpose…