Do not fuck with hippos.
I repeat: Do not fuck with hippos.
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King of the jungle, my ass.
I was on a boat in Botswana, not a small one either, and the driver wouldn't even consider getting closer to the hippo so we could take better pictures. He told me the hippo would eat his boat!
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He was right! Here’s one you may have seen of a hippo chasing a speedboat. They are wicked fast for such plump, cute, rotund looking creatures 😅
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Amazing!
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King of the jungle, my ass... you wouldn't say that to his face though... 😆
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Okavango Delta, perhaps? The guide polling our canoe there pooh-poohed the 15-foot crocodiles that freaked us out, but fled at the mere sound of a hippo through the reeds.
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Your driver was looking after your safety and his. Those water dwelling murder horses are the most dangerous animals in Africa, after us.
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I confirm this. They chase you... They swim so fast that they even jump out of water almost like dolphins...
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That is, in fact, what they do. Hippos don’t swim. They run, or bound along the bottom.
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We were out in mokoros at dusk—that's when the hired guides took my group—I was terrified. Thought, "Well, I hope someone can get my camera to my parents to show them the hippo that devoured me or elephant that drowned me." We did actually seriously annoy a huge bull elephant.😱
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Yup. On a tiny boat on a lake here in Kenya and hippo charged us. Then submerged only to explode out of the water 1m behind the boat. Terrifying.
The boat driver quickly headed to the deepest part of the lake. They aren't swimming - they push off the bottom. Deep water is safe.
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It’s the lioness that hunts anyway. The lion sits at home with a beer while wifey brings home the bacon.









