Ferocious Hippos

I’m only posting this because of a funny conversation about hippos we had in our design team meeting last week. This video and information is for mainly for Carol but the whole design team (and others?) is welcome to enjoy the funny:

At first glance, these wallowing river-horses appear to be bulky, lazy beasts and not the fearsome predators you would expect to have a habit of mauling humans. However, with gaping mouths that can open four feet wide and swinging sledgehammer heads, as well as the fact that they can outrun us on land, these highly aggressive animals have plenty of scope for destruction and are considered one of the most dangerous of African animals.

An estimated 100-150 fatalities a year.

Can be found in Lakes, rivers, wallows – in fact any water – in Africa.

Hippos will charge, trample and gore victims with alarming ferocity, often when they are blocked from deep water or someone is standing between the hippo and their calf. They have also been known to upturn boats and canoes without provocation and feast on the victim within, despite being herbivores. Nasty.

Source: http://www.painfulbite.com/the_hippopotamus.php