Yeah, right.
I notice they had no armed security to guard against hippo or other animal attacks.
The tourists were not allowed to be armed to defend themselves.
Hippos are very dangerous.
This one might have been to protect a calf. Then again, it may have been purely territorial. Lots of those.
Most of the attacks are at night, when the hippos are foraging on land, and a person gets between them and the water.
500 people killed a year by hippos makes the total of bear, mountain lion, and dog attacks in the United States look quite small.
What caliber is needed to take down a hippo? Anything less than .50 would probably be useless.
When my father and I went on a photo safari in Kruger National Park in South Africa a few years ago, not a single one of the guides was allowed to own a firearm, let alone their guests. I later had an extended conversation with one of the guides about the political situation in South Africa, wherein he described his futile multi year attempt to get a permit to own any sort of firearm, and also told of his wife being attacked in a home invasion and being helpless against the intruders (thankfully, she wasn’t seriously harmed). He wasn’t optimistic in the least about the future of South Africa.
He was very envious when I described how easily I was able to purchase firearms in the United States.
Sounds like “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”. They invaded a habitat.