Angry, Angry hippos are responsible for about 500 deaths a year, apparently. Not surprising when you can consider their tusks are as wide around as baseball bats and they can outrun a horse...
Indeed! I also have a magazine article about a nature photographer who accidentally got between two irate boar hippos having a territorial disagreement- one grabbed him by the leg and flung him *40 feet* out of the water and into a bush. He had a hole in his leg he could pass a coke bottle through without touching the edges of the wound...
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Date: 2010-01-12 12:13 pm (UTC)It's not that end you have to worry about!
TRUFAX
Date: 2010-01-13 09:55 am (UTC)Re: TRUFAX
Date: 2010-01-13 02:10 pm (UTC)Angry, Angry hippos are responsible for about 500 deaths a year, apparently. Not surprising when you can consider their tusks are as wide around as baseball bats and they can outrun a horse...
Re: TRUFAX
Date: 2010-01-14 07:09 am (UTC)(That photo's funny as hell - but only because the gamekeeper lived to tell the tale!)
Re: TRUFAX
Date: 2010-01-14 07:19 am (UTC)Indeed! I also have a magazine article about a nature photographer who accidentally got between two irate boar hippos having a territorial disagreement- one grabbed him by the leg and flung him *40 feet* out of the water and into a bush. He had a hole in his leg he could pass a coke bottle through without touching the edges of the wound...
Also, stupid tourist:
http://images.travelpod.com/users/hmax/1.1245245033.3_garoua-hippo-patting.jpg
Re: TRUFAX
Date: 2010-01-14 07:24 am (UTC)