People joke that millions of years from now, archeologists and anthropologists will look at the skulls of various species, including us, and depict us as looking like abominations and monsters -- basically what we've done with the dinosaurs, haha.Hippos do look cute and poochy...,
...until you see a skeleton of one, specifically the skull.
Then you realize that these river dwelling, saber-toothed, murder-machines must have been ripped from some D&D monster manual and given a half-assed kid-friendly reskin before public release.
If anything that wasn't so poochy had such a massive killcount, we would be hunting and eating them, the way we do with gators.
Hell, a fucking child's skull has all its teeth ready in its jaw, ready to pop out. To an outsider, a kid's skull looks like some sort of Lovecraftian abomination.