Posted on 12/14/2022 7:51:41 AM PST by Red Badger
A two-year-old boy in the western Kasese District of Uganda survived an attack from a wild hippopotamus after it swallowed him and then threw him back up.
The boy was playing at home in Katwe Kabatoro Town Council on Sunday when the hippo attacked him, swallowing him head first, according to local police reports cited by Newsweek. Locals saw the attack and threw stones at the hippo, causing the semiaquatic mammal to regurgitate the young boy and dash back to Lake Edward, which was half a mile away from the boy’s home.
The boy, reportedly identified as Paul Yiga by local news stations, was returned to his parents after being treated at a hospital, where he also received a rabies vaccine. Despite being attacked by one of the most dangerous animals on the planet – which kill an estimated 500 people annually – the boy suffered only minor injuries, Newsweek reported.
“This is the first such kind of incident where a hippo strayed out of the Lake Edward and attacked a young child,” the Uganda Police Force said in a Monday statement, according to Newsweek. “We want to remind all residents of Katwe Kabatoro Town Council, which is located within Queen Elizabeth National Park, to remain vigilant and always alert [park] rangers about animals that have strayed into their neighborhoods.”
Hippos are the third-largest land mammal in the world and live in both the water and on land. While females hippos tend to only grow up to 3,000 pounds, a male hippo can become as large as 9,920 pounds and 16.5 feet long, according to the National Geographic.
Another Whoopi Goldberg story!
Make it stop!
That is one lucky kid.
Paul Yiga translated from Uganda is ‘Jonah’.
And we think that Coyotes are bad.
Is this kids name Jonah?!
I HATED THAT GAME..................
I bet that kid doesn’t want a hippopotamus for Christmas!
Red is giving Nick a run for the money on weird stories! This sounds like a Nick post.
I can see the kid, sitting there in hippo vomit, exclaiming, “What in the world was that all about!”
It pays to not change the kid’s diapers but once a day.
LOL, we had that game for the kids, noisy as hell…
Poor kid. What a peek at what our ancestors were dealing with for millions of years until about 2000 years ago.
The kid’s two years old, maybe he won’t remember. I wouldn’t want to.
I sort of remember some guy in Africa who had a hippo as a house pet, until it killed him.
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