A hippopotamus was killed by its own species just because it wanted to find a new land to live in.

As a tour guide, Andi Dill had a time living the dream life of many young people today. Instead of having to grind his pants between four cold walls at work, Dill is paid to travel the country and meet many new friends from all over the world.

But the most interesting thing that the job brings to Dill is the opportunity to experience wild natural life and have the opportunity to see firsthand rare and wild animals that ordinary people can only see on channels. multimedia.

According to him, Quela dam is one of his favorite places. This place has the idyllic beauty of the river area. Furthermore, it is also home to many rare animals, including hippos.

They are special animals, the only amphibious ungulates among ungulates. With a chubby, oversized body, hippos are also known as amphibians because they spend up to 16 hours a day in water.

Hippos are very large animals and are the third largest land mammal today, after elephants and white rhinos. The word “hippoptamus” comes from the Greek word meaning “water horse” or “river horse”.

Despite their name, hippos and horses are not closely related; their closest relatives are pigs, whales and dolphins.

The hippo’s large teeth are in fact very useless in feeding, and even hinder the eating process. When closing the mouth, the upper canine teeth and lower canine teeth are locked together and prevent them from chewing at an angle, leading to abnormally low chewing efficiency.

Like other ungulates, hippos rely on a symbiotic digestive system in the foregut to digest plants.

In complete contrast to the shy, gentle personality of common herbivores, hippos are one of the most dangerous species in Africa with the number one aggression in the world.

On average, about 2,900 people die each year due to hippopotamuses, a much larger number than cases caused by famous “bloodthirsty” predators like sharks.

Dill recently witnessed an extremely heartbreaking scene of hippos.

That morning, Dill was sipping every drop of coffee and watching a herd of hippos gathering below the Quela dam when suddenly from somewhere a strange mother and child came.

The peaceful scene was quickly broken when a hippo in the herd rushed towards the small child with the clear intention of assaulting him. Although the baby hippo was able to escape to shore in time, it was seriously injured.

The baby hippo’s bad luck is not over yet. While running away, it tripped and fell while the mother hippo was trying to fend off the attacks of the others.

In the end, the baby hippo did not survive the ordeal. While the mother hippo was like a lost soul, another male hippo was chased out of the above area.

Hippos are extremely hot-tempered animals and easily lose control. Whenever the hippo feels violated, it will fight back frantically and can even destroy the stray.

Not only that, hippopotamus society is also very clearly hierarchical. The male stands supreme and has all the power, followed by the female hippopotamus and then their offspring.