Why Hippos Are The Most Dangerous Animals On Earth...

Today's puzzle is a beauty by Glum Hippo but be prepared to put your thinking caps on... Hippos are dangerous! You can play it here:

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Rules:
Normal sudoku rules apply. Cages may not include repeated digits. Each cage should be treated as a “building” with a height equal to the sum of the digits in the cage. (Eg a cage containing the digits 2, 6 & 8 would equate to a building of height 16.) Cells outside of cages are completely ignored for the purposes of the clues outside the grid. The clues outside the grid give the number of buildings that can be "seen" along that row or column, whereby (1) taller buildings obscure shorter buildings and (2) in a row/column with a clue outside the grid, there can never be two buildings of the same height. Note that a row/column without a clue does not necessarily have repeated building heights but may do.

[For those familiar with skyscraper logic puzzles, this ruleset above could be thought of as saying "it's skyscrapers but applied to CAGE TOTALS not cells". (And subject to the restriction that buildings of the same height can never appear in a row/column with a cage-scraper clue.)]

Glum Hippo logo art by Miriam Martincic: https://www.miriamdraws.com/

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