Your Life as a Hippo

[@orest58008]

do hippos actually switch their gender or is it just a narrative device?

[@Jamestoland]

Just a narrative device

[@testedalexthegreat1759]

I was about to google that.

[@Dynamic_Industrys]

​@@Jamestolandis the next 1 bout crocs?

[@fabiosplendido9536]

Just like all the other mammals that,.....change sex. Uh huh.

[@miguelfreitas5343]

@plendido9536 Hey, Clownfish do it xD (i know they're not mammals, but still)

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Imagine being a crocodile and when you finally find easy prey (wildebeest herd crossing) a giant hippo decides to stop you for absolutely no reason.

[@TrainLizard]

And then eats the wildebeest you just got

[@SK-ij6ng]

@@TrainLizard they r herbivore

[@brokenray6525]

​@@SK-ij6ngnot fully

[@thegreivousone2444]

@@SK-ij6ng yeah, herbivores CAN eat meat if they want to in small quantities, and hippos are especially known to do this because they wake up every day and choose violence

[@SK-ij6ng]

@@brokenray6525 i only see them chewing living stuffs, they dont actually eat it do they?

[@emersedclock6254]

“For one of you ‘probably them’ won’t end well “ combined with zooming in on the croc killed me. Thanks for another awesome video

[@Jamestoland]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@afrikasmith1049]

That Hippo is practically a Dark Souls protagonist to other male hippos and a boss character to others, especially Crocodiles.

[@Tim_Teller]

Poor crocodiles living next to those monsters :(

[@starmaker75]

Crocodiles: man those giant dinosaurs were annoying to deal with it. Hopeful the mammals aren't that bad. Hippos: OH, HELLO THERE!!!

[@Tim_Teller]

Don't forget about the man walking barefoot in the middle of the night in the swamps of Florida, messing with alligators/crocs (Fishingarrett)@@starmaker75

[@joaopc94]

​@@starmaker75 Madusup law: "Given enougth time, crocodiles have a evolutionary tendency to aways evolve into the biggest creature in their current enviromment "

[@baslielgugsa9259]

Hippos are the wrong side of town

[@Rageisbackman]

Well to be fair they did choose to live there

[@مهدیرفیعزاده-ح2ف]

7:51 what subtle foreshadowing

[@henrykkeszenowicz4664]

So basically your life as a hippo is 45% eating, 10% sticking to your mother, 45% trying to mate and 690% bullying crocodiles.

[@ChristopherHill-nt9ir]

Noice

[@grandgojira5485]

As well as an extra 1000% grieving all other animals in a 100 light-year radius.

[@billwhite9333]

I can't get enough of this series. Truly amazing content and I love how cute the animals are every video

[@SPINRAYS]

Everything’s its fun and happiness of bullying crocs until Gustave steps in

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

Guatov enters chat hippo leaves chat

[@Brandon-br7tc]

Bro Gustave does NOT have a winning matchup against most adult hippos, especially on land. In water, the average hippo is still just too much.

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

@@Brandon-br7tc he's still killed adult 2 hippos so hippos avoided him

[@Brandon-br7tc]

@@unifiedhorizons2663 he’s never reportedly killed 2 adult hippos

[@deathserpent9747]

​@@Brandon-br7tche still hunted hippos, whether they were adults or subadults doesnt matter that much. Gustav is still a water dragon.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

Nice hint at a potential future video.

[@happytuna7275]

I will drink you

[@Dragonbombs]

The dry humor is incredible

[@retime5929]

It's great to get a human perspective of an actual hippo. I remember my time as a hippo, but then I stopped binge-watching salad-eating competitions.

[@thegreatgrapehippo1614]

Thank you. As a new hippo myself I needed this tutorial

[@Jamestoland]

Glad I could help!

[@kristianschuff1723]

Just remember while you are one of the strongest animals in Africa you are not the strongest. Elephants won't hesitate to put you in your place

[@thegreatgrapehippo1614]

@@kristianschuff1723 Lucky for elephants they're cool dudes. No reason for me to mess with em.

[@kristianschuff1723]

@@thegreatgrapehippo1614 ever see a bull elephant in musk which can last for months They aren't chill

[@rosswebster7877]

I love these videos so much! They’re like an antithesis to BBC Planet Earth. Don’t get me wrong, Planet Earth is great but it’s fun to see a nature vid stripped of majesty and romanticism.

[@Jamestoland]

Thank you! Glad you enjoy them!

[@stephaniehoyland4901]

Crocodile " er miss, your kid is chewing my tail" The mum" its fine, you touch them though and I will mess you up so badly that not even a human will be able to make a leather wallet let alone a hand bag" Crocodile 😨

[@endormorre6567]

4:54 I love how the bird gets angry eyebrows too. XD

[@symbolofhumanity3938]

Thanks for the tutorial! This will definitely help my 100% genocide hippo speedrun

[@HannahDominguez-z9y]

I literally just watched how to crocodile and I love how the storyline is intwined together

[@Zak_How]

I just did the same 😅

[@onuhrita5009]

Yeah, me too. I bursted into laughter when I realized 😂

[@ahnahstahjah]

Love that you put the Kinder Happy Hippos in there ❤

[@absolutangel64]

Oh, that's what they were! Thank you for clearing that up for me!

[@SR-71b]

6:38 so that’s what happened to the crocodile in the other video

[@ray_kaku4590]

Yeh

[@planetbirthday6859]

Hippo : "That old bull of a hippo would give me trouble" Crocodile : "But would you lose" Hippo : "Nah I'd win"

[@TV_MURDER2]

HIP/PO 🥲🤚

[@Copper_vrjx]

1:42 drake:

[@calebcalhoun9847]

Not quite

[@steve20097]

Drake doesnt eat children he just ##### #### ### ###

[@rahphion9645]

Wow. Just found a new favorite channel. Please expand and teach us more. Please don't sell out. You're format is like life blood.

[@dominicnone8940]

Idk why when the rabbit lit the hippo’s hair on fire I was expecting him to do the Spy vs. Spy giggle and peace sign 😂

[@syborgcat3830]

I find hypos just running underwater so insanely terrifying

[@Memezndreamz]

I know that the hippo kills crocodiles in this video, but I still want to see a scene showing how hippos are facultative herbivores like deers. (Very controversial topic)

[@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8]

Hippos are only facultative omnivores. They primarily eat plants and have to to eat plants for the bulk of their diet and can only eat small quantities of meat or they get sick because their digestive system isn’t built for large meat quantities.

[@Memezndreamz]

@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 you know there are reports of hippos actively blocking river ways to kill wildebeest right? Plus, what’s the point of their jagged teeth except racking up a kill count?

[@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8]

@Skyler517 Yes, that's why I say facultative omnivores, they certainly eat meat but they are limited in how much they can ingest. There's also a good amount of sightings where hippos kill but don't eat what they kill. They still have a leg up on animals like those said wildebeest though because they are actually adapted to kill. They ain't omnivores in the way humans are where we can eat large quantities of meat without getting sick. Their stomach pH for example is higher (less acidic) than pigs for example. Low stomach pH is important as while meat is super easy to digest and can be digested by even some of the most obligate herbivores, the problem is that it often carries with it some amount of pathogens that need be destroyed by a sufficiently powerful digestive system.

[@alejandroelluxray5298]

​@@MemezndreamzThe tusks are for battles against other males and fighting predators, and hippos are highly territorial, they tend to kill anything that gets to close to their waterways

[@Memezndreamz]

@@alejandroelluxray5298 whatever the case is. I want hippos to be shown eating meat. Facultative is a very weird balance between herbivores and omnivores.

[@hemlockshrooms2786]

these are great. i love how you use the simplistic drawings cutouts that are real animals and cutouts that are jokes, like the horse.

[@Jamestoland]

Thank you!

[@Chillism-Ape]

Haha I love these kinds of videos! Keep up the amazing work man! Can’t wait to see you get 30k subs

[@mrnoblemonkey8401]

I love the simplicity of the animation it’s very endearing

[@Jamestoland]

Thank you! Hopefully soon haha

[@Crunchy88]

Same!

[@karl_3885]

While Germans understand Hippo(potamus), we also have our own word for it. It is exactly like used in the video: Flusspferd. Fluss Pferd. River Horse. Might also be called Nilpferd, which translates to Nile horse. Yes, that exact river is meant.

[@angrybanana5476]

In swedish we call them "flodhäst" which means river horse so sorta similar

[@a.hammad9194]

4:30 in Arabic, hippo is literally river horse

[@nutyyyy]

That's also the meaning in Greek, Hippo is horse in Ancient Greek.

[@theionmusics]

I really hope 6:05 is a reference to that one game abou the two kids in a boat with guns

[@pootis_king]

1:53 i just hear COME ON SLAM WELCOME TO BAND COME ON SLAM

[@kimberlylewistyner2070]

1:07 sides eye

[@ketsuekikumori9145]

"This is the start of a long, ongoing... 'coexistence'." I would call it aggressive tolerance.

[@il-ma.le.]

0:25 ok, I do hope that in that African tale the hippo at least *tried* to disembowel the rabbit

[@novemberdawn8145]

WOOO ITS SUCH A GOOD DAY WITH A NEW UPLOAD OF THESE

[@arminhergl5388]

Thanks, keep up the good work!

[@Jamestoland]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate the support!!

[@BlackCappedChickadee]

2:47 The wild chocolate hippopotamus.

[@purplehaze2358]

This video compliments the crocodile one really well.

[@codiserville593]

That folktale intro is quite something

[@ChimkenRiceNuggy]

Just found your channel today. I admire your animation, and teaching about wild life.

[@vojtisekjeptisek799]

3:49 the bird on this stomuch Is a bird that mostly feeds on blod of other animals, making a joke of the sweat being blod.

[@Aiden-dh3dv]

How about “How to Whale” next? We haven’t gotten any aquatic animals yet so it would be pretty cool!

[@elhombredeoro955]

But we know so Little about them

[@Aiden-dh3dv]

@@elhombredeoro955 oh

[@tacos4078]

Watch every video starting from the hippo.. amazing work😮🎉 I can't wait to see more

[@Jamestoland]

Thank you! More to come!

[@2Sor2Fig]

As a Zimbabwean whose grown up being told many such folk-tales, I can confirm that on 80% of cases, it's always the hare that's going around starting drama.

[@kitkatboard]

Also the case in asian and european myths... I don't know what rabbits and hares did to our ancestors but they're not letting it slide.

[@valger_ice7586]

I love that the crocodile video is so connected to this one

[@writhe2134]

I think moto moto likes you

[@Crunchy88]

W's

[@leximorland4952]

The variety of hippos kills me 🤣

[@cave3263]

Can't wait for the next one

[@REDSTONENOOB.]

7:50 “at least I gave him a fighting chance” the hippo says wile bashing in an innocent crocodile’s skull

[@Billy426.]

5:50 “I THINK MOTO MOTO LIKES YOU” 🗿

[@seansingh4421]

I could seriously feel the disdain in the croc’s eyes. Poor fella

[@RocioDiazS]

2:58 Thank you for informing me about this bc the hippos at the zoo always do this and now I know. Thank you

[@widodoakrom3938]

South america hippo become invasive species bcs there's no drought to control hippo population also lack of competitors such as elephant and rhino

[@channel_lurker]

what its already over?! we didnt even get too see him pass on too the next pond in the sky!

[@LotusFlowerrr]

It's really wholesome with the crossovers. ❤

[@s.b.7987]

love how you stared the the video with the African folktale

[@YellowPredator92]

Now I need to see ‘Your Life as a crocodile’

[@BeanzForDayz]

I like how the first 28 seconds of the vid is just silence XD

[@AA1319A]

Omg this is amazingly hilarious. I love hippos and they don't get enough credit sometimes.

[@Crunchy88]

That rabbit at the Start was on Demon time.

[@alimonlemon]

the chocolate hippo was a nice touch lol

[@joshuapatrick682]

I had no idea Hippos could spontaneously change gender like lower order animals! this is huge and think of the implications for the rest of the mammal world!! can't wait to use this as a talking point at my girlfriends' snooty parties.

[@tarzanstrickland]

He was joking, they dont do that, obviously

[@itairoz1434]

Lol at 5:09 got ad of trashbags ‏‪

[@simeonjohn7666]

Low-key that intro reminded be of Tinga Tinga Tales

[@melvyncardenas6493]

If your gunna do crocs next you gotta include Gustave eating a hippo

[@dashflash9250]

Bro deserves way more than 40K subs. Minimum 500k. 600k even. His videos are too hilarious YET informative. Nah you know what? 700k subs. Minimum.

[@LilyKittyCatto]

Omg the happy hippo biscuits 😭💖they are so expensive now

[@aq411]

That young croc broke my heart 😭

[@SoullessAIMusic]

reminds me of the book, "The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter."

[@R1deinstyle]

Cool vid ideas Crocodile (cool for shadowing) Wolf Lion Eagle Brown bear Black bear(very different from brown bears) Jaguar Leopard Fox Try em out

[@Jamestoland]

Thanks! Some good ideas, want to do all of them, just gonna take some time

[@R1deinstyle]

Cool thanks

[@francisbalfour1243]

Ngl the throw backs to other episodes are fantastic

[@marvinochieng6295]

James i may not be able to give you a thanks or contribute to patreon but i personally appreciate your content. Keep it up

[@Jamestoland]

Thank you! I appreciate all the support

[@benh9688]

Do the crocodile next!

[@swizinSims]

Next do a "your life as a human" it will be a blast😂

[@Furious_fang366]

Guarantee next vid is "how to crocodile"

[@Jamestoland]

Possibly…

[@Furious_fang366]

​@@Jamestolandknew it

[@dragonking2719]

Love that these all line up

[@DART.GOBLIN.REAL.]

10/10 intro would recommend

[@samankucher5117]

lol . informative entertainment wirh a awesome art style :) great vid :3

[@Jamestoland]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@bkjeong4302]

There aren’t actually any documented cases of hippos killing crocs (though there are plenty of cases of them attacking and driving away crocodiles).

[@BLOODKINGbro]

Hippo...so close to Badger status

[@TeodorescuAlin-m5k]

Life as a crocodile next?

[@skelly6615]

1:43 Caseoh while he’s streaming

[@AnayaSantiago-k7q]

Can you do your life as a Lion?! ❤

[@Tommyfordmusic]

Toland I love this. Serious big lez vibes! Keep it up this is class work

[@aidangilman9190]

1:08 bombastic, side eye criminal offensive side eye

[@MrMickthemonster]

I can't wait to be a crocodile next week.. my whole life has been waiting for that moment

[@JuanTutors]

I think you have to be clearer about hippos not changing gender. I noticed google searches went up about hippos changing genders.

[@AidanDaGreat]

Hippos blovking off croc's food supply for no other reason then to show domination is a sigma grindset move.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

I can understand now why the hippo is the protector of childbirth and mothers. RIP THAT CROC UP, MAMA!

[@tigris115]

Iirc, hippos muck spread on land as a dominance display and to make a scent trail that leads them back to the river

[@Aquablue62]

Would’ve been a perfect moto moto joke

[@RocketDRA]

I love the African folk tale. They knew hippos used to be hairy, in some weird way.

[@purplehaze2358]

Baby hippoes are such lug potatoes. I wish I could hug one without its mother - or father, or aunts, for that matter - turning me into a meat salad.

[@ashleylorenz7336]

So all of your videos are combined as one ecosystem because this video appears to be connected to the crocodile video which was the first one I watched

[@divvu1014]

The kinder happy hippo killed me.

[@williammoua2542]

I watched this and had to go and watch all the others!

[@menyf7s]

Prince with a thousand enemies for a reason

[@pickle9232]

Nile crocodiles can kill full grown hippos around half the time

[@Cmr1923]

Another animal information channel I can look forward to. Thank you m8

[@Jamestoland]

Happy to help!