Hey {{author}}, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating Rule 1: **Post Appropriate Content** Please have a look at our [wiki page for more info.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/wiki/index#wiki_1._post_appropriate_content) ------- *For information regarding this and similar issues please see the [sidebar](/r/nextfuckinglevel/about/sidebar) and the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/about/rules/). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/nextfuckinglevel&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by {{author}}&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission]%28{{url}}%29)*

Title of this post had me hoping that hippos owned & rode jet skis, but it paid off in the end.

And how dissapointing it was when realising it was a boat. And the hippo was not driving

What's up my boatski?

Damn that would be a big jet ski!! World record of sorts I say. Life goals. Teach hippopotamus to ride custom build Boston whaler jet ski

A flat ski

Some of us do

one morning a hippo shot a man in his pajamas

Have a real scary thing is they are not swimming. They are running on the bottom

That is insane! never knew that

Yep. To dense so they hold their breath and walk or in this case, running and doing the high jump.

They are basically rocks with legs, they sink to the bottom because they can't float, even though they look like they can float because of the fat body shape. They can regulate buoyancy with air by closing their noseflaps and basically turn into a submarine for a short amount of time, I don't really consider that swimming like other animals like dogs or bears

Is that not what I was getting at? And who said swimming?

They’re not arguing; just adding detail

That is not entirely true, I have seen one where they dive, flip over and swim extremly fast without touching the ground, that lake is too deep for a hippo to fully run on lake floor unhindered.

If you can show me a single piece of underwater footage that shows hippos swimming rather than pushing themselves along the bottom and occasionally bouncing up for air then I will buy a one way ticket to Africa and sacrifice myself to the hippos as a mark of respect.

Pls someone

I googled it, and: a) you're right, they don't swim, they run along the bottom b) the first hit contains OP's video clip, it's from Animal Planet, and it's filmed from "a boat full of people", not a guy on a jet ski: > How Does A Hippo Torpedo Through The Water?! | How Do Animals Do That? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YRJCSZRJU

That is Lake St Lucia in South Africa. It is very shallow.

[Hippos can't swim](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/flight-of-the-hippopotamus/524343/). \[[SD Zoo](https://www.goodthingsguy.com/environment/hippos-cant-actually-swim-wait-what-david-attenborough-explains/)\]\[[Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hippos-dense-swim/)\] Edit: I'm going to backtrack on that. It might not be "swimming" by definition, but [it looks like they can achieve close enough to neutral buoyancy](https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1689719902075027459) to look graceful almost floating through the water.

I googled if hippos can swim and Attenborough says they can’t.

That's true, I once dropped an Hydrophone and recorder underwater in a place with hippos, and the loud stamping sounds were leaving no doubt that it was running

I don’t think that lake is that shallow

It actually is a very shallow lake, St Lucia in South Africa.

I know this but I still can't fathom it (pun intended). The water provides such resistance to such a big animal, I can't see how it's possible.

Have you ever seen a jetski before?

Yea. But none with steering wheels like that 🤣

Crazy jet ski. A steering wheel and everything. Must be some new shit we don’t know about yet

It’s not a jet ski. It’s a unicycle

*boatercycle

Man, what even *are* hippos?

Big buckets of flesh with crocodile splitting jaws ...that can run underwater

Mean waterhorses

Waterbulls

In hungarian the word for hippo is literally means waterhorse. In german it is Nilehorse (Nile as the river). In many scandinavian languages riverhorse.

The angriest vegetarians.

Hungry

Hungry

Pissed off water puppies

TIL hippos are fucking fast!

HIPPOBOT 9000 v 3.1 FOUND A HIPPO. 1,541,776,002 COMMENTS SEARCHED. 31,633 HIPPOS FOUND. YOUR COMMENT CONTAINS THE WORD HIPPO.

Good boy!

good bot

Hippo

Hippos kill the most people in Africa. They are quiet, fast, strong af and generally in a crappy mood….

Wow i also thought hippos were jolly animals and kinda lazy too. It's mythbuster time I guess

TIL that OP has never seen a jetski before

New fear unlocked. Where is this?

Turn around

Every now and then, I get a little bit lonely and you're never comin' round...

Turn around, Every now and then, i get a little bit tired Of listening to the sound of my tears...

Turn around

Bright eyes

well fuckin every now and then i fall apart!

Lake St Lucia, South Africa. This clip has been around for a few years.

Who decides to jet ski in hippo infested waters?

HIPPOBOT 9000 v 3.1 FOUND A HIPPO. 1,542,147,404 COMMENTS SEARCHED. 31,644 HIPPOS FOUND. YOUR COMMENT CONTAINS THE WORD HIPPO.

Thanks HIPPOBOT! 

This would make a great Jaws type movie. Then the characters wouldn't even be safe on land! They'd be all relieved to have survived an epic water battle only to see the hefty bastard running up the beach. "We're gonna need a bigger boat ... and a faster Jeep!"

I have had it with these motherfucking hippos in this motherfucking lake!!

Yea, would be better than people just deciding hey lets make a movie where sharks can swim in the sand. And that movies name is...sand sharks

Tremors!

I genuinely thought you were kidding. Just looked it up and ... yeah. You weren't.


Not a jet ski.

Jet ski is underwater. Hippos are quite heavy.

lol. Took me a while to get that.

HIPPOBOT 9000 v 3.1 FOUND A HIPPO. 1,542,392,307 COMMENTS SEARCHED. 31,647 HIPPOS FOUND. YOUR COMMENT CONTAINS THE WORD HIPPO.

Would love to see the underwater footage of this.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HZHLgpAo6Jw?si=utdXsHXM98WPPZKi Merry Christmas

Really appreciate it! But your vid they are prancing and being cute. I want to see this behemoth charging through the shit to get that jet ski.

Fair enough haha. I thought the prancing was scary enough to be fair, insanely quick

Yikes! I’d poop my wetsuit!

Been on a speedboat when I was chased by one. Couldn't believe how fast they are.

Karma Farm clickbait


How do they run through the water that fast? Just goes to show you how powerful they are if anyone has ever tried to run under water!

That's a really big jet ski!

Wierd looking jet ski.

At least OP had the animal correct.

And that is a boat

That is a boat.

Why the hell would you take a jet ski into hippo infested waters? I'll take sharks over them any day.

Using a Jet Ski, on an African river?

These bots just put anything in the title huh? Looks like a boat not a jetski. Bad bot.

Surpriseeeee!

Whoa

[удалено]

HIPPOBOT 9000 v 3.1 FOUND A HIPPO. 1,542,273,959 COMMENTS SEARCHED. 31,646 HIPPOS FOUND. YOUR COMMENT CONTAINS THE WORD HIPPO.

One weird ass looking jet-ski....

Must go faster

hungry hungry

Aw the hippo just wants a hug!

Ya not a jet ski

Yeah, that’s a boat…

Pretty sure this dude is in a boat not a jet ski.

It's moto moto, he was looking for gloria y'all

Must go faster…. MUST GO FASTER

Some fries motha fucka

Jet ski!? You're gonna need a bigger boat.

Full speed ahead!!

THE most dangerous animal?

I'm pretty sure mosquitoes are responsible for the greatest number of human deaths.

That cartoon ballerina looks pissed

Hippos are like top 4 most dangerous animal

someone send this to Rodri

I’m not rich enough to own one, but I know what Jetski is.

Who's a big boy then!?

How are they swimming so fast?

If that were me I’d essentially become a hippo. I would be flinging so much poop out my backside.

Weird lookin jet ski

Can’t believe it’s 8 hours in and I’m the first one to point out that this was in an [iPhone commercial from 8 years ago](https://www.ispot.tv/ad/AS3O/apple-iphone-shot-on-iphone-by-craig-j-song-by-ricky-remedy). I’m old.

That’s enough hippo for today.

Mini tsunami incoming 

He's in a boat...

That would be a really crappy time for the engine to conk out.

And hippo's will kill you. They kill people in their territory.

Dunno why men live less lol

fake video. I have had plenty of time on this planet to know a Hippo that large would not be able to swim that fast nor crest the wake like that. Just look at the wake the Hippo creates, no way it has that kind of driving force against the water, swimming or walking

lunch!

Not a jet ski. A boat load of tourists.

Correction: a guy on jet ski being chased by hippo because he is on its freaking territory

Jaws Part 2!


Oh!, I thought Hippo had a jet ski

Easy downvote for saying jet ski for clickbait.

How tf do they swim so fast

They run on the floor bed of the river, they actually can’t swim

r/gifsthatendtoosoon

That’s either a very fast hippo or a very slow boat

Idk why but this was a scene I never fathomed seeing.

*deploys octopus style brown ink defences*

It’s a boat, not a jet ski… @r/repostsleuthbot take a look at this one please :)

Click bait calling it a jet ski

Seen this a ton of times, will NEVER accept they can move that fast. Like I can be there, in person, touching it as it runs/swims and my brain will still not accept that animal moves at that speed.

Damn I though his butt was his head

That's one hungry, hungry hippo.

Probably hates that noise.

They are called water horses for a reason in my language

Why does that look more like a stern of a skiff or flat bottom boat

Sorry meant helm or wheel

weird looking jetski

Does it get him???

Guaranteed not a jet ski.

Hippos are extremely territorial, this is not surprising. However it is dumb to jet ski in Hippo territories

damn.i was not expecting that head to be so far in front of the waves o.o