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[Saiko Kila]

Elephant in musth is probably more dangerous than any hippo, and occurrence of this state is largely unpredictable. It would add some dynamics (like "run for the hills" dynamics) to gameplay if implemented. Would be fun for players with elephant armies, and would make life of animal caretaker a bit more interesting, even if shorter.

[random_odd_guy]

Hippos are widely considered the most dangerous animal in Africa, by the native Africans. I think that says enough by itself.

That said: There are certainly other herbivores that can be very dangerous. It's just with hippos it's not really situational at all.

[escondida]

They aren't just the most dangerous animal in Africa anymore; an army of hippos is actually poised to invade South America.

No, really: when Pablo Escobar designed his home/prison (it's a long story), he insisted on keeping hippos. After his death, they were released into the wild, and have become more and more of a problem.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

It's probably a good job they decided not to start farming them in Louisiana back in 1900.
https://magazine.atavist.com/american-hippopotamus

[Saiko Kila]

As far as I know hippos have to be provoked by humans entering their turfs (like fishing or boating in their rivers, or standing between a hippo and their river, which is really stupid thing to do). Elephants in India are known to enter human turf and attack them. Like happened in India this spring, when the elephant entered a woman's hut, trampled her to death, and then waited in ambush for her friend to arrive, and trampled him too. They often seemingly plan attacks and destroy crop and homes and people in intelligent fashion, on top of just going crazy sometimes and killing their handlers and onlookers. Hippos may be the African top killer herbivore, but elephants are such in India and Sri Lanca. Hippo may kill more than a couple of people by destroying their boat, but an elephant (named Osama bin Laden, finally shot in Jharkhand in 2008) killed 11 and injured dozens over months just because he was hunting them.

Said that, there are other, far more statistically dangerous animals, who should be able to enter rage (or hunting routine) and endanger dwarves. Dogs come to mind... I'm really more concerned that dogs don't go crazy than hippos are placid. Dwarves are not known to be particularly tender caretakers.