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Hippopotamus amphibius
Spotted on Apr 3, 2011
Submitted on Apr 3, 2011
8 Comments
Hi Saber,
I have created a Mission for East Africa Wildlife and cordially invite you to add you photos to this new mission.
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/4028...
nice pic
Great photos, I love how in the first one it looks like the hippo is kinda smiling!
Ye Alice, all giant creatures are short tempered Elephants, Whales etc.
Great catch...!!
Some of the hippopotamus escaped*
Yes Alice! They are really dangerous and also a plague. Few years ago in Colombia, we had an enormous problem with them because in the 80's Pablo Escobar bought four hippopotamus for his extravagant house in the northwest Colombia. And after his death some animals were relocated in zoos. (My city zoo kept the majority of them), but the other ones were left there and I don't know why they didn't sterilize them, so they reproduce to like 15 and some of them escaped, so they were roaming free in the valley scaring people and destroying sown fields.
Our guide in Africa says the most dangerous animal is the Hippopotamas, he has the shortest temper! Nice selection of pictures.