Does anyone know what color is a hippo's sweat?

Answer 1

Red, which looks as though they're bleeding.

Answer 2

Ah! Now this is a question that has baffled folks over the years! Some have stated that hippo's do not sweat but others have, and rightly so, disclaimed this as pure fantasy - as anyone would know, lugging that huge frame around would bring anyone or anything out in a sweat. Perhaps that is the reason for why hippo's live on land and in water....they need the refreshment to cool down their sweating bodies. As for the colour....we've not been up that close and personal to a hippo so therefore, alas, we cannot fully answer your question but we would like to think it is all the colours of the rainbow so as to bring some colour to the dull grey of the hippo's thick hide. xx

Answer 3

Hippo sweat, the new sunscreen?

WebMD Medical NewsMay 26, 2004 -- New research shows that the hippopotamus -- famous for its luxurious mud-pack skin treatments in the hot sun -- produces a sunscreen every time it sweats.

Wipe a hippo's face, and you get something akin to sweat, reports researcher Yoko Saikawa, a scientist with Keio University in Japan.

Sure, it's not produced by sweat glands like human sweat. Nevertheless, it serves the same purpose. Like sweat, it helps control a hippo's body temperature, explains Saikawa.

When the stuff is fresh, it is colorless like sweat. But in hippos, the mucus gradually turns red, then brown.

In their study, Saikawa and his fellow researchers wiped a hippo's face and back -- then tested the red mucus in their laboratory. As they filtered the mucus, red and orange pigmented solutions emerged. "We named the red pigment 'hipposudoric acid' and the orange 'norhipposudoric acid,'" Saikawa writes. The study appears in this week's issue of Nature.

The pigments are in the ultraviolet range, indicating that they "may act as sunscreens," he explains. The red pigment also acts as an antibiotic, protecting the hippo's skin from infections, he explains.

There's just one problem. Once they're off the hippo, these pigments become unstable and turn into solid, brown gunk within a few hours. What factor in the hippo's mucus keeps the stuff from changing form? That's yet to be discovered, says Saikawa.

Hippo sweat poses no immediate threat to the sunscreen industry -- at least not until the secret hippo ingredient is found.

Answer 4

No, but my son was singing this song at Christmas about "all he wanted for Christmas was a Happy Hippo" or something like that and I realized what all that hippo stuff was about!! I said, "Oh so that was what Wally was talking about!" and my Son said "Who, is Wally?" I said, "Oh just a buddy of my online." and let it go at that. I figure I have to have some privacy, if I had told him I was on here he would have known who I was!!! lol!!

Answer 5

Hippos sweat blood, so it must be red.

Hope you had a good Christmas, Wally.

Answer 6

I did not know hippos sweat. I thought they just glistened. And, if it got real bad, they found a watering hole to jump in.

Answer 7

I think it depends on the color of the hippo.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

Hmm, that's a tough one, I didn't know they even sweat. I know
that they refresh themselves in cool water when they get
over heated, and need a bath. And other times don't they
roll in mud to be cool also. I've never seen one with perspiration, so I'll bet they don't sweat. What do you say?
I'd like the answer to that one?

Answer 11

Hippo's don't sweat.