Hippopotamus

[RogerFraser]

https://twitter.com/SANParksKNP/status/ ... 4996243459

WATCH! We have kept this footage received from the Skukuza Section Ranger for almost a week now; trying to get it a suitable caption. We failed. What can you say that's fitting when a hippo drowns a kudu cow and the action is caught on camera! It is worth the two minutes' data.

[Richprins]

Another example of how they "react" to aminals in the water!

[Lisbeth]

The croc and the kudu are still there

The crocs are eating hundreds of wildebeests and zebras each year when they cross the rivers during the migration

[Klipspringer]

Interesting observation in South Luangwa


https://www.latestsightings.com/single- ... th-luangwa?


A bloated carcass will sometimes explode, this is often seen in whales. But this is likely to happen only if humans interfere during postmortem or when predators interfere.

I remember a sighting of a zebra carcass blowing up when a leopard handled it.

[Richprins]

Interesting!

[Lisbeth]

Strange that the lions don't get more scared, they hardly move

[Klipspringer]

Strange that the lions don't get more scared, they hardly move

perhaps it is common experience for them

[Lisbeth]

Maybe

[Richprins]

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Newborn baby hippo caught on camera in KNP
James Macindoe arrived just after the birth of the little hippo in late December and caught some of its first steps on video.
32 mins ago
Linzetta Calitz



> Photo: James Macindoe

Macindoe said they came across the calf and its mother on December 27 on the access road into Shingwedzi Rest Camp about one kilometre before the camp.

“We had never seen a hippo as small as that and were told by other people at the sighting that they had just missed it being born that morning!

“We sat with it for about 40 minutes trying to keep up with the mother who chased away a crocodile at one stage.”

Macindoe said they have been going to the Kruger National Park for many years, seven or eight times a year.

This is why he and his brother decided to create their own YouTube channel, MacKruger Wildlife Videos, which now has just under 50 000 subscribers and over 19 million views.

View the second video of the mother chasing away a crocodile on their Instagram page, here.

https://lowvelder.co.za/717139/newborn- ... ra-in-knp/

[Alf]

Shame he is so small