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It still fits if they're used as horses, especially if it doesn't go into detail on how hippos would make plausible/practical replacements for horses.
What work is this?
Thanks! It does explain it, though. The explanation given is simply that the hippos are better suited to the mashlands/bayous than horses are.
Also, it's River of Teeth, a novella by Sarah Gailey. I mean to make a work page for it and was looking for tropes. Everything else is easy, but the hippo situation needs some help in finding the best fitting trope.
I'm looking for the best trope that fits hippopotamuses being used in the place of horses. I know there's Horse of a Different Color but since the trope discription talks so much about fantasy/alternate world creatures which can be used in place of horses, I am not sure it fits, since the work in question is an Alternate History set in the 1800s without any magic rather than a "proper" fantasy world. Any ideas, anyone?
Edited by Derkhan