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Post by malikc6 on Apr 12, 2018 20:00:59 GMT 5
  Before I get into this, I just want to let you all know that I actually had a dream of this fight taking place with me waking up before the fight could conclude itself. To make this simple, these animals are in some environment where the temperature doesn't negatively impact any animal (ie wolves overheating in Africa or the hippo succumbing to the cold). Realistically I'd imagine that the wolves would only hunt a hippo (if they ever actually lived in the same areas) out of desperation for food and they felt they had enough numbers to do it. Bull elks have chased off wolf packs and a hippo is significantly more dangerous due to being much bigger, heavier, and much more durable but more often than not, I'd imagine that they would avoid the hippo. Wolves are at average weights and this hippo is exceptionally large, weighing a whopping 6000 lbs. |
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Post by creature386 on Apr 13, 2018 2:51:33 GMT 5
While the description is nice, it would be great if you added a poll and a short profile of both animals (I could do so as well, but I'm kinda in a hurry right now).
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Post by malikc6 on Apr 13, 2018 5:00:18 GMT 5
While the description is nice, it would be great if you added a poll and a short profile of both animals (I could do so as well, but I'm kinda in a hurry right now). Done. |
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Post by Infinity Blade on Apr 14, 2018 1:16:47 GMT 5
This almost seems like the definition of a stalemate to me. I think the hippo would struggle to catch the wolves, but the wolves are up against a freaking megaherbivore here. I don’t imagine they’d dish out extensive damage to it soon.
What do you all think?
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Post by malikc6 on Apr 14, 2018 5:09:09 GMT 5
This almost seems like the definition of a stalemate to me. I think the hippo would struggle to catch the wolves, but the wolves are up against a freaking megaherbivore here. I don’t imagine they’d dish out extensive damage to it soon. What do you all think? I think it can go a number of ways. In a realistic scenario if these animals interacted with one another, a pack would try a hippo, but would realize just how hard it is to damage these creatures and likely choose something else to eat. That and the hippo is very aggressive and would be charging at the wolves. However if that was the only option available and they were overall just really desperate or usually determined and patient, the wolves in theory could win. They would treat the hippo like a large bull bison and use hit and run attacks, wear it down with time, until after probably a literal day of fighting , the wolves manage to take down the hippo. It takes several hours sometimes for them to take down a large bison. The hippo would take considerably longer. I think it would be more about exhausting the hippo rather than causing extensive damage to it. If the hippo was close to water, then nobody wins. It could ignore the wolves and just head to the water. They have done this exact thing with lions. I can also see some wolves underestimating the hippo's unpredictability and getting grabbed and crushed by the hippo's bite. This would likely scare the remaining wolves into retreating. Overall I think it's a stalemate or the wolves incredibly slowly wear down the hippo and much more slowly kill it. The amount of meat that meal would give would be absolutely tremendous. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2018 7:45:53 GMT 5
I think the hippo is strong enough to do this.
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Post by sam1 on Jun 29, 2018 12:37:50 GMT 5
Wolves would give up..sure they can bite the hippo at leisure but he's just way too durable..could just sit to protect its hind legs and make itself near invulnerable.
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Post by marsupial on Jul 2, 2018 12:29:03 GMT 5
Well, in my opinion the wolves would eventually get tired and give up. The wolves would probably chase the hippo and the hippo would run to a body of water (if there is one) and the wolves would just give up there. Or if there isn't a body of water and they would have a pretty long fight but the wolves would get tired and give up.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Feb 10, 2019 3:30:54 GMT 5
Yeah, this one's a stalemate
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Post by malikc6 on Mar 24, 2019 15:08:32 GMT 5
One of the few battles that ends in nobody winning. haha.
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Post by elosha11 on Mar 28, 2019 5:21:48 GMT 5
I think the hippo would win either a battle of attrition or by killing one wolf and scaring off the rest. The only way lions can have a chance is to jump on the hippo's back and bring it down with their weight. Lions are obviously much larger and more powerful than wolves. The wolves would only have the option of gnawing at the hippo's legs and backside. The hippo could sit on a wolf if they weren't careful, or bite them. They've been known to do that to lions. I think it's fairly likely that a battle of many hours would lead to at least one wolf making a crucial mistake and getting bitten. And unlike lions who might survive one such bite, a wolf almost certainly would not.
Also, 10 wolves isn't even an exceptionally large pack. If it was 15 or 20 wolves I'd agree that they could maybe wear out the hippo over a long time. But with only 10, the wolves may be prone to getting exhausted themselves. And this contest calls for a massive hippo of three tons (indeed it would be highly rare for a hippo to reach 6000 lbs, 5000 is already huge). I don't think a lion pride would attack such a beast, so why do we think the much smaller wolves would have better luck?
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Post by dinosauria101 on Mar 28, 2019 6:38:36 GMT 5
Again elosha, another great reply! Definitely a step-up from the replies Taipan gives to threads, as I've said.
I also see a stalemate, and maybe an edge to the hippo, because like you said, the wolves run the major risk of having their exhaustion tactics backfiring on them,
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Post by rock on Apr 8, 2019 22:52:21 GMT 5
it would be a stalemate but seeing as large wolf packs give up on hunting a bison which is smaller and weaker than a hippo , the wolves would likley retreat to avoid injury
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