Hippo Picture

Slide Show of Hippo in Southern Africa

Open Wide I see you Early Morning retreat back to Kariba Learning how to swim Hippos on a bank All muddied up Visiting the neighbours

picture©Brett McDonald and Fay Pearse

Hippo have strange habit of stamping out camp fires

Although hippo are grazers they have been seen nibbling at carcasses floating in the water

Everybody knows that “hippos kill more people than any other animal in Africa”.

This is a belief generally accepted but you can find no statistics to back this up, and it is probably nonsense

Hippos are much-maligned animals. They are large wild animals with fearsome equipment, so obviously they are potentially dangerous if they feel themselves to be under immediate threat, but they are not inherently aggressive.

In areas where they are not harassed hippos are surprisingly tolerant animals; given an escape route they will almost always move out of one’s way.

Most hippo “incidents” come about because sleeping hippos have been surprised at close range, and more often than not “charging” hippos are just trying to get to deeper water

Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls

Zambia
Livingstone

Botswana
Chobe

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