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| Taken from a boat on the Chobe River in Botswana. That night there were again hippos wandering around the camp, but this time the guards actually brought us good and close to see them. They even pointed out the one that had killed someone a few months earlier...which I assumed meant that about a decade ago some hippo had eaten someone's shoe or something. That seems to be the general conversion rate on these stories. In the middle of our hippo watching, a really obnoxious condescending women came to warn us away. She told us that hippos were surprisingly fast, and that she would know as she's been chased by them twice before. I can't say I took her very seriously. Any hippo safety advice coming from someone who's been chased not once, but twice is highly suspect...it's somewhat like taking crocodile safety advice from Steve Irwin. Her claims of their speed and agility seemed dubious as well, as she was quite overweight. If she has escaped them twice, I figured I could dodge them at least once. |
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