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Hippos are no joke. From memory, in Africa lions kill around 70 people a year. Hippos kill around 3000.
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Unless you count mosquitos, hippos kill more people than any other animal in Africa.
Someone really needs to make a horror-movie version of Hungry Hungry Hippos.
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Thank goodness nothing seems to be able to keep up with mosquitoes.
A neighbour worked with Medecins Sans Frontieres, and she knew more than most about how mosquitoes carry disease. Before talking to her, I had wondered why diseases that can spread by transfusion (e.g. HIV) don’t spread by mosquito. She explained (and as I understood her explanation) that to be a mosquito-borne disease, the “in the mosquito” time has to be a development stage of the pathogen’s life cycle - the mosquito can’t just be an Uber ride for the microorganism.
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Again, it’s my understanding a hippo really could bite someone in half like you see in the trailer, and almost move that fast, over short distances.
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Gods bless Casual Geographic:
Do not fuck with hippos.
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Trigger warning: hippo bites human:
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So cute but so dangerous.
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FIONA! Pride and joy of Ohio right there.
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