Yup, that’s a huge factor people don’t tend to think about when it comes to fitness. It’s the reason they tell you not to do a lot of cardio if you’re trying to do hardcore strength training. Your body only has so much adaptive “bandwidth”, and trying to do to many things at once will massively reduce your progress in all of them.

It’s partially your height. Naturally lower center of gravity means naturally better stability, plus the less you have to lower yourself to get a lifting grip on something the less effort int takes to get the thing and yourself back up.

Mostly because almost nobody knows it exists in the west.

Nah, they’re just stuck on hulk mode. They’re hyper territorial, even to other hippos, even to babies of other males in their own group.

There’s a handful of bird species that can only eat stuff like nuts, berries, and seeds. Koalas. And I vaguely remember something about a couple kinds of sloths that only eat like, leaves, grass, and flowers?

An important distinction to make is that they are facultative herbavors, not obligate herbavors.

They might prefere fruits and veg, but they’ll eat whatever they can get their teeth on.