What makes hippos able to run faster than humans?
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Weight moves weight. The same reason why a weightlifter or a boxer or whatever sport usually has the strongest individuals being the largest. If you’re very very big, your muscles will likely be very very big as well. And like I said, weight moves weight — being small and nimble is great but having big, powerful leg muscles does, in some instances, make for a better overall runner at the end of the day.
You can see it in humans too. Usain Bolt is actually an anomaly when it comes to sprinters, but if you look at the builds of the typical sprinter, they’re usually [pretty fricken huge but mostly on the shorter side](https://www.google.com/search?q=american+sprinters&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS590US590&hl=en-GB&prmd=inv&sxsrf=ALiCzsaAX9CQyPu8cREuG278wD099-3_0Q:1653330357713&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiFvavFn_b3AhVfkYkEHQd7CLwQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=414&bih=720&dpr=2#imgrc=wVOXC2-HJyAf_M). You’d think that being a sprinter, they should be small, and usually they are, in height. But in weight, they are usually very dense and powerful people to compensate.
Weight, moves weight. And hippos are enormous.
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