| The first explorers who saw the hippo first | | | | while they are in the water. Someone chooses |
| called it a sea cow and hunted them because | | | | a bull and then walks up to the river bank |
| they have vast amounts of meat and fat on | | | | waits for the bull to raise its head from the |
| them. One of Africa's fully grown adult | | | | water and then just simply shoot it and the |
| hippos can weigh around 2 tonnes, but do not | | | | hunting mission is accomplished. |
| let that weight fool you because they can run | | | | |
| 20 kilometers an hour with their ivory tusks | | | | The dead hippo normally floats to the surface |
| that are around a metre and a half long. | | | | of the water within a half an hour. After |
| | | | this, at a suitable time with no other hippos |
| Unfortunately, because of it's attitude when | | | | around it is dragged to the bank. The most |
| it comes to the hippos territory it is the | | | | common shot made to kill the hippo is to the |
| animal in Africa most responsible for human | | | | brain because once you shoot it in the brain |
| deaths even more then crocodiles. They even | | | | you do not have to worry about it being dead |
| attack boats canoes and humans that find | | | | or not. Right between the two eyes is the |
| themselves in their territory. But if you | | | | best area for a hunter to aim for. The best |
| respect their territory they will mind their | | | | countries to go to for hippo hunting safaris |
| own business and just float in the water. | | | | are Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and |
| | | | Botswana. You can go to South Africa however |
| The hunt for the hippo is not a difficult | | | | unfortunately it is rather expensive compared |
| task at all. 90% of the hippos that are | | | | to the other places. |
| killed are shot from roughly 50 yards away | | | | |