Hippos are considered the world's deadliest large land mammal. These beasts have one of the strongest bite forces in the animal kingdom and can even hold the. As we've seen in the video, hippos will go after lions, not as prey, but to move them out of their territory.
Because hippos are so large and powerful, and because hippos have the advantage in the water, you're generally going to see lions trying to get out of the way of the hippo. In January last year a Kenyan fisherman was lucky to escape with his life after a hippo launched a savage attack near Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Mathew Wanjiuku was ambushed by the two.
A pair of American wildlife photographers had a terrifying one-in-a-lifetime encounter when an angry angry hippo charged their vehicle biting a giant hole in it just feet away from them. Bill and Linda Klipp, from Key West, Florida, have always said that if things go south while photographing in the field, their number one rule is to "just keep shooting" - and that's exactly what they did. Wildlife photographers on a safari in Botswana's Okavango Delta got more than they bargained for when a perturbed hippo suddenly reacted violently to their presence.
Bill and Linda Klipp were. An angry hippo in the Manyoni Private Game Reserve in South Africa chased down a safari vehicle and bit it as the jeep sped off. A massive hippo gave some photographers the scare of a lifetime while snapping some pictures in Africa.
Watch the video from Botswana. After fending off an attack by the increasingly angry hippo, the dogs redirected their focus to the youngster, and one brave dog swam into the dam in an attempt to snatch the impala. A company director from south Warwickshire has described the terrifying moment he survived a hippo attack, after being trapped in its jaws, dragged underwater and then tossed into the air.
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