The hippopotamus is one of the most beloved and popular animals in Africa.

Its cute appearance fools many who don’t know.

In fact, many people consider them docile, fat, lazy and slow, when in fact, they are responsible for more human deaths in Africa than any other animal.

They kill more people than lions, elephants, leopards, buffalo and rhinos combined.

Despite eating only vegetables, hippos tear limbs, crush bones and can devour an entire human.

If they have the chance.

Its huge mouth and eight-inch canine teeth have been known to chew on boats and other animals.

According to statistics, the chances of surviving a Grizzly bear or a shark attack are higher than that of a hippopotamus attack.

These animals can weigh more than 3 tons and reach speeds of 30 km per hour, coupled with the fact that they attack anything that approaches their territory, both in water and on land, and their

extremely aggressive and unpredictable nature puts them in the top most dangerous animals in Africa.

In our first video on the channel about hippos, I intend to shed some light on these animals and make their true nature clear.

We are in a lake that formerly had lush shores, adorned by Yellow Acacias, with water so clear that you could see the thousands of fish that live there, where Flamingo bathed and colorful butterflies flew over its surface.

These days it’s not like that anymore.

There are no more butterflies or Flamingos in the mountains as they used to be.

Flower production industries draw about 20,000 cubic meters of water a day from the Lake and the papyrus swamps for fish breeding are almost dry and flower greenhouses are everywhere you look.

This is Kenyan lake, surrounded by volcanic hills.

Lake Neiva Acha is a major tourist attraction because of its large populations of hippos and other animals.

But their hippos have become more aggressive lately as added human encroachment, mainly

from fishermen, flower growers and tourist hotels, has reduced their habitat.

The problem has been aggravated by the rise in the lake’s level, which has reduced the amount of pasture available for hippos.

As a result, animals are being forced to graze in areas they previously avoided, such as on tourist hotel lawns or in areas where fishermen go out to catch crayfish, leading to a sharp increase in attacks on humans.

Tourists access the site by boat and then walk on foot to photograph giraffes, buffaloes, gazelles and sometimes hyenas.

Meanwhile, hundreds, perhaps thousands of hippos bathe close to the shore, hidden against the submerged fence of the now flooded flower farms, houses and tourist huts.

The result is a deadly mix: humans and hippos competing over a narrow strip of territory, nature is claiming in the picture and the result has led to dangerous fights that humans cannot win.

Even so, the lake is a source of life and income for many inhabitants of the region, and many people depend on it to survive, including people who are laid off from local industries and are left without means of survival.

They use the lake to survive from fishing while not relocating in the job market.

These people are usually the biggest victims, because without experience and due knowledge of the place, they become easy victims, as is the case of Mete o vanco, who was violently attacked by a hippopotamus, and everything was

recorded by the photographer who was at the scene. , Frederick Genoese.

This is the first of two reports that you will learn about in this video.

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It’s early January 2019 and mete vanco, 30 years old, is fishing in the lake along with four other fishermen.

The men are a little apart from each other, looking for the best spot to fish.

The banks of the river are there, with tall grasses and difficult to move around.

The rod that puts it in does not reach the bottom of the river with its baits.

So he decides to go deeper into the Home.

The fisherman is as silent as possible.

He doesn’t want to scare the fish.

At that moment, he hears a bang and sees a hippopotamus running fiercely towards him.

The man, who was already apprehensive about the dangers that surround the place, immediately drops his pole and runs as fast as he can through the waters of the Lake that were at the height of his shins.

The hippopotamus is distant, but approaching quickly.

The fisherman knows that no matter how fast he runs, he has no chance of beating the animal in the race.

Desperate, he reviews his options.

While running from the animal

along the muddy banks of the river, the fisherman sees a fallen tree on the ground with a small space, and believes that he will have more chances if he tries to protect himself under it.

He puts it in, manages to reach the tree seconds before the huge animal reaches him and there begins a game of cat and mouse.

The fisherman quickly wallows under the trunk of the tree, among the mud and undergrowth, while the animal voraciously searches for a way to grab a bite.

Locals and tourists observe the situation, but they are distant and do not know what is actually happening.

Suddenly, a high-pitched, spine-tingling scream is heard, followed by a deafening silence before anyone can react.

Another harrowing scream ripped through her so loudly it sent a group of zebras thumping about.

The thick trunks under the tree served as shelter for only a few seconds before the furious animal managed to break through them.

The hippopotamus has made a gap wide enough to reach the fisherman and lunges repeatedly, biting and stomping the man as it sinks into the mud.

The soil there, but the accent and the trunk of the tree minimize the attacks of the enraged animal and do not allow the hippopotamus to lift the fisherman with its mouth and shake it, as it usually does with its adversaries.

O hipopótamo morde seu braço, ombro e tronco com sua boca, que cabe o torso inteiro de mattio e sobrava espaço.

Pessoas que estão no local ajudam o homem que teme por sua vida e eles sabem que se chegar próximo é muito arriscado e fazem o que podem à distância.

Eles pegam pedaços de metal e bata em, fazendo muito barulho na tentativa de assustar o animal.

This seems to work and the hippopotamus backs away from the fisherman in fear of being attacked again, gathers his strength and runs to safety.

An agonizing 10 minutes pass before Matte’s ordeal is over.

He was rushed to the nearest hospital, where he was treated for external injuries and puncture wounds to his torso.

Since then he has fully recovered.

Still in the hospital, the fisherman said he was a lucky man and thanked him for being alive and for all the people who helped me.

God is good because I am listening.

God bless you, he said, the people who helped him.

The general feeling of people who followed an incident is that the fisherman was incredibly lucky to be alive.

Two men died in the same lake, within hours of each attack.

An unsuspecting Taio Rings was attacked and killed by a hippopotamus.

His name is 66 years old.

He was in the company of friends, taking pictures near the Hotel sofa.

When the hippopotamus attacked him, an eyewitness named

James omolo said the Taiwanese got so close to take pictures that the animal turned on him, biting him in the chest.

The foreigner was rushed to the Navais sub-county hospital, bleeding profusely, but died

during treatment.

The local resident, opportunely, said death around here.

Sometimes it’s just a step away.

In another incident, also on the side with illegal fishermen, he was attacked by a hippopotamus a few kilometers from the site, with an incident with the taioness.

He died on the scene.

Witnesses said the middle-aged man strayed into an area where hippos rested, leading to the Fatal attack.

The man was also bitten on the chest.

George the bomb.

A local naiva doctor, Acha Country Hospital, which treats an average of one or two hippo victims a week, estimates that 40% of the hippo victims he sees end up dying and those who live are left with severe scarring or sequelae for the rest of their lives. life.

He recalled a 35-year-old fisherman he treated last year who was attacked before sunrise while setting his nets in the lake, but did not arrive at the hospital until noon.

Some of his insides were bulging out.

We fix what could be fixed in man.

We couldn’t save him.

Less than half an hour after surgery, he died.

Said the bomb.

It’s the morning of May 2021 and the sun hasn’t risen yet.

And, George, the aura is walking along the shores of Lake Neiva, he thinks with his friend Babou.

They’re on their way to see if the net they installed the afternoon before caught any fish.

George said that Babu is a guy, which he is, but a very nice one, and that he was the one who taught me to be patient and to fish.

He was very good at it.

The men don’t have money to buy a bar, so they use nets to fish.

This practice requires the fisherman to enter the river with the water close to their neck to see if they have caught any fish.

The two men are well aware of the dangers that surround the place.

Babu has already been attacked four times by the animals, but managed to escape all of them alive.

Still, he continues to fish in the Lake, as he depends on fishing to survive.

It is still dark, but Babu’s trained eyes spot the eyes and ears of a

hippopotamus, peeking above the surface.

There are a few dozen meters away.

The fishermen take a stick and start hitting the water, making a lot of noise.

The animal turns and walks away, but after that, the fishermen continued to check the net for fish.

When, suddenly, a few seconds later, they see the animal approaching quickly, wallowing under the water as if it were a submarine.

The animal goes first towards George, who quickly swims to shore.

Babu, who doesn’t know how to swim, stays behind and is grabbed by the animal.

The hippopotamus’ 20 cm fangs penetrate Babu’s back.

He bites it three times and walks away.

Dozens of fishermen go to help, but it’s too late.

The attack was quick, but enough to take the fisherman’s life right there.

Jorge Maura, despite being very saddened by the death of his friend, went back to fish in the lake a few days later.

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