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Think Traffic Is Congested Where You Are?
Try a river in Africa
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I think I read that more humans are killed by Hippos in Africa than any other wild beast. The huge jaws have huge teeth and though a hippo is not interested in eating you they are extremely grumpy about being disturbed and can do huge damage in a heartbeat.
I wonder if this photo has been doctored? I cannot imagine a croc messing with hippos. I don't think a hippo actually has any natural enemies in the wild.
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I think crocs will try and take a smaller hipo. Usually, the herd will set up a barrier of bodies to protect their young. I did remeber a PBS special on a killer croc. This thing was huge. I think it killed several villagers. They had film of it and the hipos were backing up. They tried to capture it. I think they called it 'Gustav'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_(crocodile) Tom |
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Hippos always seemed sort of slow and benign to me. It's hard to imagine them being really dangerous. Any animal that large and in person is pretty intimidating, though. I'd love to see a video of what happened in between those two pictures. That would be pretty interesting.
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There's a book which is an extremely good read. It's called, I believe, "Death in the long grass". It's written by a big game hunter/guide in Africa. Some great tales of all the dangerous animals in Africa. The hippo is the one animal all the guides feared. They are almost impervious to 99% of the rifle shells, their teeth cause horrendous wounds, any bite from a hippo results in certain infection and when they are on the march they deviate from their course for nothing!
Try this link for an excerpt from Peter Capstick's book, "Death in the long grass". http://books.google.com/books?id=yCXQNj5NN20C&dq=death+in+the+tall+grass+book&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=TjwNS8e-A4OGswPP86GkAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=14&ved=0CDkQ6AEwDQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false Last edited by Mike D; 11-25-2009 at 09:42 AM. |
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They also come out of the water at night so I would make it a point to camp as far from the water as possible....preferably in a roof top tent.
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It would be fun to face one down with lots of ammo and a well - aimed Panzerfaust or an RPG.
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I was already admiring you...
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Trust me, I'd almost take pity on anyone who wants to admire me.......
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