This hippo, standing on the bank of Lake Manze in Tanzania, looks amiable enough but they have enough of a reputation for me to become extremely nervous when the guide in the small outboard boat we were travelling in moved close to give his tourists a better view. I'm not often right but....
....I was in this case as, with no warning at all, and with quite amazing speed, he charged.
By some counts, hippos kill 3,000 human a year in Africa, coming third in the grisly competition of which are the most lethal of Africa's inhabitants - they are beaten by humans, while the top killer, mosquitos, kill over 400,000 annually, mostly children.
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