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