Mary's Monday Metazoan: Poop propellors

That's all I've got to say. Hippos are really into scat.

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Yeah, I'd hide too.

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Well and their tails are obviously designed to act like shit-pellers. Why? It's not like they care if there's lumps of turd floating down the greasy Limpopo.