A school of hippos gives an aggressive warning sign | Primal Survivor: Extreme African Safari

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5 months ago

(exhales forcefully) But it's not crocodiles I should have been watching out for. Instead, it's one of the most temperamental animals out here. (hippo snorting) Wow, there are a lot of eyes looking in my direction, a lot of ears pointed in my direction. They know I'm here. Hippos kill more people than any other large animal in the entire world. Being so packed together in such limited water, they're stressed and ready to defend their territory. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Look at that one. It's starting to c

ome up, it's starting to come up. -(hippo bellows) -Oh, oh, oh. Just showing me their jaws, showing me their tusks that could literally cut a man in half. (hippos grunting) They're telling me to back off. Hippos are dangerous in and out of the water. They can run up to 22 miles an hour. And in this area, I need to keep a lookout everywhere around me. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Here's what I'm talking about. The ones that are up on land, those are just on the land feeding, which means there could be more ou

t here. That's when they get really dangerous. Okay, time to go.

Comments

@joselembo4661

I had a terrifying experience in Mozambique once. A friend and I decided to observe hippos. We took a small boat, with a guide (a very young boy) and went up the Zambeze River, up to a spot where there were a bunch of hippos in the water. They were apparently not minding our presence. All of a sudden, about 20 or 30 meters from us, a huge animal came out of the water, with that huge mouth open, warning us to go away. At that time, I didn't know how dangerous they are. Nowadays I haver chills to think what could have happened.

@rocioaguilera3555

Hippos are the most dangerous animals in the African rivers. More deadly than the crocodiles

@staceyritchie7100

They're so cute!

@Kellie_Joy.

Powerful footage. Thanks you guys. This is spectacular 😊

@Highest_Priestess

“Showing me their tusks” … I would be dead because I thought it was yawning.

@Vasta.

Cute animals

@misanthropic_nihilist

Imagine camping near these things and hear them in the middle of the night... it'll sound like laughing demons