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21/07/2022 8:41 pm
This is based on extrapolation (based on look) that cows/buffalos/elephants are overweigh. They are most likely perfectly healthy and fit...
22/07/2022 12:17 am
Thank-you !
I like your thinking and won't be embarrassed when I step out of the shower now !!
Steve
23/07/2022 12:07 am
Thanks for your perspective Chav....finally something I can work with. What do those extrapolators know anyways?
23/07/2022 3:30 am
Thanks for your perspective Chav....finally something I can work with. What do those extrapolators know anyways?
Hm, I sense a bit of healthy sarcasm but perhaps I am biased ...
Extrapolators do know. We are all extrapolators, I am a big one too, but extrapolation could be laced with bias, and hence lead to wrong conclusions.
E.g.
Chav likes sweets, Chav is fat and overweight. Conclusion: sweets cause overweight.
Hippo is a vegan, hippo is fat, hippo must be overweigh. Conclusion: vegan diet causes overweight.
Where is the problem? The Hippo is not overweigh (bias), mother nature made him/her fat for a reason. Hence vegan diet made hippo just right.
Further thoughts ... mother nature didn't make Chav fat for a reason, so Chav should eat less sweets. Depressing.
PS: just read an article that hippos are not strict vegetarians ... half of my reasoning above fell apart. It seems ignorance leads to wrong conclusions too. Even more depressing. Perhaps I should make some memes ...
23/07/2022 10:34 am
@chav Very interesting perspective Chav and again something I may be able to work with. One quick question...is it evolutionarily possible for a human to have trace amounts of hippo DNA?
23/07/2022 1:06 pm
Well, apparently the hippo's closest relative is the whale, and some estimates say humans and whales share as much as 85% of their DNA, so go figure.
Of course it also has to be said that we share somewhere around 55% of our DNA with bananas (Ah! NEO-Darwinism rears its ugly head again)
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
24/07/2022 10:17 am
Well, apparently the hippo's closest relative is the whale, and some estimates say humans and whales share as much as 85% of their DNA, so go figure.
Of course it also has to be said that we share somewhere around 55% of our DNA with bananas (Ah! NEO-Darwinism rears its ugly head again)
Hmmm...interesting. This of course prompts a comment on the commonalities of the blowhole and being thick skinned.....but I won't go there. 
24/07/2022 9:38 pm
@chav Very interesting perspective Chav and again something I may be able to work with. One quick question...is it evolutionarily possible for a human to have trace amounts of hippo DNA?
Yes, as Graeme noted ... here is the thing though, although humans share lots of DNA with the rest of the living creatures, that DNA is not necessarily used but merely stored in the library of old code. Some people seem to have found a way to find and activate the expression of the "thick skin" gene from the hippo DNA that is poorly understood and understudied phenomenon in genetics.