Near sure it's somewhere in hereIron Mikes Tiny Eyes wrote:Has anyone posted the video of that tiger attacking a ranger sat on an elephant? The thing jumps nearly 10ft in the air and makes contact. They are killing machines.
What would win a fight between a tiger and a hippo
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Re: What would win a fight between a tiger and a hippo
I dunno
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Re: What would win a fight between a tiger and a hippo
That dentist would shoot them both.
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Hippo, it wouldn't even be close.
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Another great thread.
Ive given this one a fair bit of thought and i reckon this fight could take a long time to reach it's final outcome. Both combatants have fearsome weapons but in my opinion both would struggle to deploy them effectively against each other in the decisive areas.
Tigers are awesome predators and in 99% of conflicts with other creatures easily come out on top, they probably overcome most of the other 1% many times too. However, they're "programmed" to kill at the neck and i think they'd struggle to get a full size hippo in position to do this. Ive no doubts they could inflict numerous superficial wounds on the hippo but how long would it take to get something decisive? They usually rely on mounting the prey and using weight/strength to ground it and then kill from the throat. I think a hippo could withstand this attempt to ground it for a long time.
The hippo on the other hand is ferocious in a fight and carries weight, power with no lack of speed. Let's differentiate speed of running across open land and speed of head/jaw/neck reactions. In a fight they're very fast and aggressive. Remember too that the hippos jaws aren't only dangerous because of piercing from it's large teeth, even a toothless one would crush/snap most bones it clamped down on.
Unless the hippo is lucky enough to strike a random hit early on I'm going for a fairly long stand off and fight with many none decisive injuries. In the wilderness confrontations like this can take days to settle with numerous stand offs. The longer it goes on i would take the tiger.
In the wild i believe a full size hippo would "see off" a tiger without necessarily killing it. Is that a good enough answer or is it strictly one or the other to the death on this thread??
Ive given this one a fair bit of thought and i reckon this fight could take a long time to reach it's final outcome. Both combatants have fearsome weapons but in my opinion both would struggle to deploy them effectively against each other in the decisive areas.
Tigers are awesome predators and in 99% of conflicts with other creatures easily come out on top, they probably overcome most of the other 1% many times too. However, they're "programmed" to kill at the neck and i think they'd struggle to get a full size hippo in position to do this. Ive no doubts they could inflict numerous superficial wounds on the hippo but how long would it take to get something decisive? They usually rely on mounting the prey and using weight/strength to ground it and then kill from the throat. I think a hippo could withstand this attempt to ground it for a long time.
The hippo on the other hand is ferocious in a fight and carries weight, power with no lack of speed. Let's differentiate speed of running across open land and speed of head/jaw/neck reactions. In a fight they're very fast and aggressive. Remember too that the hippos jaws aren't only dangerous because of piercing from it's large teeth, even a toothless one would crush/snap most bones it clamped down on.
Unless the hippo is lucky enough to strike a random hit early on I'm going for a fairly long stand off and fight with many none decisive injuries. In the wilderness confrontations like this can take days to settle with numerous stand offs. The longer it goes on i would take the tiger.
In the wild i believe a full size hippo would "see off" a tiger without necessarily killing it. Is that a good enough answer or is it strictly one or the other to the death on this thread??
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The amount of thought you put into these responses is amazing
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Re: What would win a fight between a tiger and a hippo
It was a choice between this thread or watching the stoke match highlights again.Ramone wrote:The amount of thought you put into these responses is amazing
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Fair enoughPISTON (BLACKCAT) wrote:It was a choice between this thread or watching the stoke match highlights again.Ramone wrote:The amount of thought you put into these responses is amazing
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This.Perch's First Touch wrote:Tigers have been known to have killed elephants. The f***ing hippo doesn't stand a chance.
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I'm pretty sure there would have been instances of elephants killing tigers.Perch's First Touch wrote:This.Perch's First Touch wrote:Tigers have been known to have killed elephants. The f***ing hippo doesn't stand a chance.
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Hippo would destroy a tiger. They kill more people than tigers do
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Tiger wouldn't have a f***ing chance. Hippo would flatten that poor kitty.
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Yeah pretty sure everyone has heard the 'hippos kill x people' line but how does that prove they could kill a tiger?Hjl wrote:Hippo would destroy a tiger. They kill more people than tigers do
I dunno
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ExactlyDuke wrote:Yeah pretty sure everyone has heard the 'hippos kill x people' line but how does that prove they could kill a tiger?Hjl wrote:Hippo would destroy a tiger. They kill more people than tigers do
People probably underestimate hippos but know full well to stay away from tigers, therefore leading to more deaths by hippo. Plus tigers are an endangered species so there will be less attacks.
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Ramone wrote:ExactlyDuke wrote:
Yeah pretty sure everyone has heard the 'hippos kill x people' line but how does that prove they could kill a tiger?
People probably underestimate hippos but know full well to stay away from tigers, therefore leading to more deaths by hippo. Plus tigers are an endangered species so there will be less attacks.
Kinda contradicted your agreement there
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Re: What would win a fight between a tiger and a hippo
By that logic a water buffalo would beat them both up as they kill more people than hippos do.Hjl wrote:Hippo would destroy a tiger. They kill more people than tigers do
As for mosquitos ... they are double hard bastards!
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you may laugh at the mosquito, but i challenge you to spend a summer in south texas. Mosquitos don't bite you, a cloud of them drags you into an ally way and leaves you for dead.Donkey Toon wrote:By that logic a water buffalo would beat them both up as they kill more people than hippos do.Hjl wrote:Hippo would destroy a tiger. They kill more people than tigers do
As for mosquitos ... they are double hard bastards!
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Hjl wrote:you may laugh at the mosquito, but i challenge you to spend a summer in south texas. Mosquitos don't bite you, a cloud of them drags you into an ally way and leaves you for dead.Donkey Toon wrote:
By that logic a water buffalo would beat them both up as they kill more people than hippos do.
As for mosquitos ... they are double hard bastards!
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Mifune wrote:Hjl wrote:
you may laugh at the mosquito, but i challenge you to spend a summer in south texas. Mosquitos don't bite you, a cloud of them drags you into an ally way and leaves you for dead.
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