When animals fight each other, a cut-scene will play showing one animal attacking and killing the other. Some of these methods are intimidation to scare them towards another animal, have them chase you and you run past another animal, or perform a dodge and the animal runs towards another animal. Animals can fight each other on their own or you can cause them to move nearer to each other to initiate combat. When different animals get in close proximity to each other, they can attack and kill each other. To butcher a carcass more than once, all the items dropped from the previous butchering must be picked up. The carcass can be butchered three times. The Hippopotamus Carcass provides Mammal Meat and Hard Bone when it is butchered. Hippos have a relatively large amount of health, taking multiple successful strikes even with a Sharpened Stick to kill, though it is possible to get lucky and kill them with one strike. The more damage you can do from a distance, the better. Be warned, using a close quarters weapons to attack the hippo will likely result in injury around this dangerous animal. It is recommended to use Sharpened Sticks first, Sticks next, and as a last resort rocks or hard tools. If you do decide to attack, use the best weapons you can acquire. Be very careful with a hippo in the water because your available combat actions are limited and the hippo is just as deadly in deep water as it is on land. You can only dodge the hippo (and not very well). If you engage a Hippopotamus in combat in water deep enough to be swimming, you will be unable to counterattack or intimidate. It is possible with a group of hominids to intimidate a hippo but beware if it fails as you will have a large and angry animal coming after you. Being a large animal, it is hard to intimidate them even holding weapons. The Hippo uses their size to cause blunt force trauma and can inflict Injury. Great care should be taken if you decide to engage in combat with one of these animals.

They appear to be grazing but don't let this fool you! Hippos are very territorial and will defend their areas furiously. The Hippopotamus is a large animal that appears in a herds around fresh water sources.

Hipo potamus