Southern Elephant Seal vs. Hippopotamus

[leo]

The hippo should win here although this seams pretty close , I favor the hippo due to its better bite force and more aggression

[dinosauria101]

^Agreed
But how about max vs max, leo?

[sam1]

Aug 15, 2019 23:52:41 GMT 5 dinosauria101 said:

Aug 15, 2019 23:09:54 GMT 5 sam1 said:

50% is A LOT of weight advantage still.
As for the rest of your post, I'll wait for that max size source before replying further.

In this thread, blaze gives the dimensions of the record hippo: theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/694
That should tell you what you need to know, but if it is not enough, I think they went more into detail here:
tapatalk.com/groups/carnivora
(If you need elaboration, log in with your username and password, find Blaze's profile, and search their posts with the key word hippopotamus. I would screenshot it but my account was banned)

Now, about weight: I agree 50 percent is a substantial mass advantage, and certainly cannot be overlooked. However, the hippopotamus is significantly more competent on land than the seal, and I imagine a bite from the hippopotamus would do a fair deal more damage than a slam from the seal. As I said earlier, it comes down to 2 things here: who needs less hits to kill, and who can apply their weapon more efficiently.

 As I suspected..that "research" ( quotation marks because, if my understanding is correct, they basically went out "destroying" and  then slaughtering the poor animals) doesn't actually say anything about the maximum size of the species. 
The sample size is FAR too small and locally limited.

I agree with your other points. Voted 50:50

[dinosauria101]

Aug 16, 2019 18:04:23 GMT 5 sam1 said:

Aug 15, 2019 23:52:41 GMT 5 dinosauria101 said:

In this thread, blaze gives the dimensions of the record hippo: theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/694
That should tell you what you need to know, but if it is not enough, I think they went more into detail here:
tapatalk.com/groups/carnivora
(If you need elaboration, log in with your username and password, find Blaze's profile, and search their posts with the key word hippopotamus. I would screenshot it but my account was banned)

Now, about weight: I agree 50 percent is a substantial mass advantage, and certainly cannot be overlooked. However, the hippopotamus is significantly more competent on land than the seal, and I imagine a bite from the hippopotamus would do a fair deal more damage than a slam from the seal. As I said earlier, it comes down to 2 things here: who needs less hits to kill, and who can apply their weapon more efficiently.

 As I suspected..that "research" ( quotation marks because, if my understanding is correct, they basically went out "destroying" and  then slaughtering the poor animals) doesn't actually say anything about the maximum size of the species. 
The sample size is FAR too small and locally limited.

You may wish to log in to your Tapatalk Carnivora account if that's the case. As I said, blaze went into far more detail on the old Carnivora about this 

[rock]

this seams pretty close but i give the slight edge to the hippo but this is close and can go in either ones favor