Posted on 02/13/2025 4:56:56 AM PST by vespa300
2nd most dangerous animal on that continent.
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Craig, you paid the price for stupid. Walk away.
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70 years old and never heard hippos are dangerous?
Live under a rock?
They are the number one people killer in Africa.
Hippos high fiving each other
My daughter and I found ourselves surrounded by Bison in the
Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, when the old bull was challenged by the young bull for dominance of the herd.
We rolled down the back window of the Tundra, climbed into the bed and watched from about 100 feet away as the two fought for 30 minutes kicking up dust in the setting sun.
After the young bull forced the old guy to slink off in defeat, he trotted over to my truck stuck his nose into the bed where we had hit the deck, and grunted for about 2 minutes like he was going to flip the truck over to get at us.
But he didn’t.
That scene is emblazoned on my memory!
How ignorant could they be? But also, where were the tour operators’ attorneys when warnings and disclaimers should have been issued?
it’s not the tour operators fault. The animals do what animals do.
I had a friend who had been a zookeeper at the LA Zoo (I think that was the zoo). He was standing near a truck that was picking up a dumpster full of hippo poop. The dumpster slipped and fell over on top of him. He almost drowned in hippo poop. They rescued him in time and resuscitated him. I always wondered if they gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Hungry Hungry Hippos - The Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJxDz2y59E0
Somebody didn’t know a wild Hippo was one of the most violent, dangerous creatures on earth?
Chinese morons.
If they really were alone, then I suppose that we have only his word for what happened.
My mother was being heroic. Her fellow tourist was the moron, having slipped past a guardrail and warning signs to get closer to the bison for the sake of a better picture. Fortunately, the great beast remained placid and undisturbed throughout.
Chris Christie looks great 👍😃!!?
I live just North of YNP — man the stupid people!
I recall when I was in college at Montana State and Reagan was President a photographer from France was taking pics of wildlife and, as is the point of this story, bison: he gave his camera to a tourist and asked the bloke to take a photo of him (the photographer) next to a buffalo.
The photo was snapped just as the bison was removing the Frenchman’s head via it’s horn...the head landed 40’ away and the professional photographer never took another photo ever again...
The guides must have given the ‘tourists’ credit for way more common sense than they actually possessed.
I wouldn’t step one inch away from the person with the weapon, while in proximity to any critter larger than ME, or where I could likely encounter a snake!
Wow, hippo poop. That sounds like more than even my older brother does.
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