Hippo sweat to be turned into sunscreen. Key part is this:
After analyzing the hippo sweat under a microscope, the researcher found that there were two types of crystaline structures in it – banded and non-banded. He pinpointed that the banded ones were “characterized by concentric dark rings,” which seemed to be the key to the liquid’s amazing properties. “The rings are the result of a structural periodicity that occurs on a scale comparable to the wavelengths of visible light. This means that the sweat is an effective scatterer of light, so that it combines both sun-blocking and sun-screening properties,” Viney stated.
So basically they are saying that hippo sweat is, like, a cloaking device. Which means that hippopotami could be Predators if they ever bothered to get out of the damn river. We are extremely lucky that hippos are lazy.
LEONARD: Reads about Dick’s parents getting killed at the circus and he’s like “I should buy a circus!”
Top comment: Are you saying hippos are hungry? And also, hungry? — Matt
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The hippos aren’t lazy. Oh no, they’re just biding their time.
Who do you think REALLY causes global warming, anyway?
I going to quote Leonard as well: “Man, this is the best ‘Elseworlds’ ever.”
True, but is ultraviolet light mainly, so we’d still be able to see them. And in any case I guess we could hear them.
Anyway is not really sweat, but a mucous secretion. I saw once in a Discovery Channel show that they need the continuosly wet enviroment to live.
Could be a real issue in places like Seattle, though.
Hippos kill more people per year than any other animal. We’re not /that/ lucky. The buggers graze on land at dusk can run up to 40mph and frequently do when they feel threatened. A hippo won’t eat you, but it will chew you to pieces and then spit you out.
Those are your hippo facts for the day.
“Could be a real issue in places like Seattle, though.”
Or Vancouver….
Damn, someone beat me to the hippo-kills statistic (though I thought it was only in Africa).
Should we be thankful the Waynes didn’t take Bruce to the zoo that fateful night?
“Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamous?” — Mitch Hedberg
I’m just picturing sullen teenage Bruce being asked to take out the garbage, and when he finally does so after a long argument, he walks out in the rain. As he drops the garbage into the can, a bolt of lightning flashes across the sky, and in a moment of extreme teen angst he screams “MY PARENTS ARE ALIVE!”
It’s true, hippos are horrible, vicious creatures.
As well he should have been. Hippos bully crocodiles, kick the shit out of them, decide to chase them around.
That Batman stuff is funny, but the overuse of “all” made me want to hurt myself.
Technically, mosquitoes kill more people, but they do it indirectly. But yes, hippopotamuses are scary bastards. You don’t want to mess with something that can weigh four tons and still run faster than you.
Plus, they twirl their tail around when they defecate, creating a massive shower of shit. The Predator never did that, except in a couple of Dark Horse comics.
Scary thing is, hippos have been observed chowing down on meat in the wild, particularly during times of drought. It’s just generally less effort and risk of overheating to nom veggies. And they’re not above cannibalism. Yeep!
Are you saying hippos are hungry? And also, hungry?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HippoJaw.jpg
^ I think this one’s hungry….
Along with “I SHOULD BUY A CIRCUS!” the high points of the Bruce Wayne: Argument Against Inheritance discussion there are the Bernie Madoff comparisons, and the “Too annoying for the Joker to kill” bits.
You kind of have to figure that given the way his character played out normally (by dressing up in a goofy suit and “avenging” his parents by arresting the same 8 dudes over, and over, and over again, to the point where he is psychologically incapable of even just letting any of the die) that he’d be just fully committed to using his money for whatever petty obsessions he came up with.
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Skemono: One thinks he should have been afeared of rays a touch more, given his fate.
Thanks to MGK, hippos are the new bears.
Supergp: No, they are Africa’s Bears. Africa is the only continent without bears. It’s also the only continent with Hippos. There’s likely some kind of treaty agreement about this between them; Hippos get Africa, Bears get the other continents, Antarctica is left to the penguins.
Does Australia have bears?
I Googled it, and turns out there ARE bears in Australia. Koala bears anyway, I didn’t really see anything on other kinds of bears, but oh well.
Also, there apparently used to be bears in North Africa, but they have all been killed out.
Australia has koala bears and drop bears.
I guess the Hippos just ran the bears off of the continent.
Though hippos mourn their dead during the day, it’s when they think we can’t see that they feast. And not only are they not above cannibalism, they get anthrax poisoning from it.
By my faultless American reasoning, this makes hippos the new WMDs/suicide bombers for the Taliban(imal).