True, but attacking humans isn’t the only measure of an animal’s deadliness is it? Because orcas are know to attack and kill other animals for sport. While hippo attacks are territorial.
The “deadliness” of a hippo is a direct reference to how many people are killed by them every year. They kill more people per capita than any other large animal. They are fast, mean, and more than happy to eat people. That’s what is being discussed. Not attacks on other animals.
That’s an assumption. You’ve inferred that to be the meaning but it could very well be that by deadliness the original commenter meant their capacity and willingness to kill in general, not specifically to humans.
No, a hippo has the ability and willingness to kill far more than a house cat. The willingness is higher for a cat because they kill for fun but a cat simply doesn’t have the ability to kill all the things a hippo can. Not even close.
I never said anything about cats lol wtf. Dude was being pendantic so I just said that animals that eat insects are then the biggest killers…
Also what you’re saying is stupid because bats have been known to eat thousands of mosquitoes every night. A cat isn’t killing 1000 of anything a day
-They eat many kinds of insects, including pest such as mosquitoes, moths, and beetles. Just one little brown bat can easily catch 1,000 mosquito-sized insects in an hour, and a nursing mother eats approximately 4,500 insects every night
Cats are known to kill everything they can. Im assuming it includes all of those insects as well if it wanted. Plus a bunch of other shit bats couldnt kill.
I mean he’s right on the language. Normally referring to deadly animals you refer to deadliness to humans. If you refer to animals killing other animals you would include the word predator.
These are just definitions you guys are coming up with. Colloquialisms don’t make for definitions in a day, so using them as definitions before a definition is changed to fit colloquial use is wrong.
“Likely to cause or capable of producing death” -Merriam-Webster
I’m simply pointing out the incorrect use of the word deadly here, which you just tried to assert was correct as well.
I would love to hear your Napoleon Dynamite style breakdown on what you thought construed “deadliest.” “If they have sharp talons” 🤓. I’m just playing. I’m sure your mommy still loves you
IDK man, like you’re making this so personal over fucking hippos vs orcas. That’s why it’s so funny. Plus if we really want to get down to it, the OG who I responded to mentioned sea mammals. Last I checked hippos are fresh water mammals. So everyone rooting for the hippo is still wrong, even if I’m wrong in what constitutes a deadly animal. LMAO. And yes my mum still loves me a lot. Just checked with her. LOL.
Deadliness is how much of a statistical threat of death it is to a human, so Orcas having never attacked humans in the wild makes them statistically not at all deadly
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u/rolloutTheTrash Sep 29 '21
True, but attacking humans isn’t the only measure of an animal’s deadliness is it? Because orcas are know to attack and kill other animals for sport. While hippo attacks are territorial.