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The 1996 Zambezi River hippopotamus attack was an incident on the Zambezi River, Zimbabwe, near Victoria Falls on 9 March 1996 where a hippopotamus attacked two river tour guides killing one and injuring the other. The surviving tour guide is British-born [1] Zimbabwean Paul Templer (born c. 1969) who lost an arm in the attack.
However, the group encountered a ferocious hippo. Hippos, known for their aggressive behavior, are extremely dangerous to humans. One of the three suspected poachers was ambushed and killed by a ...
It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis). Its name comes from the ancient Greek for "river horse" (ἱπποπόταμος). After elephants and rhinoceroses, the hippopotamus is the next largest land mammal.
The word hippogriff, also spelled hippogryph, [2] is derived from the Ancient Greek: ἵππος híppos, meaning "horse", and the Italian grifo meaning "griffin" (from Latin: gryp or grypus from Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps), which denotes another mythical creature, with the head of an eagle and body of a lion, that is purported to be the father of the hippogriff.
Related: 2-Year-Old Boy Rescued After Hippo Swallowed 'Half of His Body,' Police Say Shirley managed to swim to the riverbank, but Roland's shoulder had got dislocated in the attack. "The hippo ...
A pair of American wildlife photographers had a terrifying one-in-a-lifetime encounter when an angry hippo charged their vehicle on safari. Bill and Linda Klipp, from Key West, Florida, have ...
The name seems to have originated as cambuk in Indonesia, where it was the name of a wooden rod for punishing slaves, where it was possibly derived from the Persian chabouk or chabuk. When Malay slaves arrived in South Africa in the 1800s, the instrument and its name were imported with them, the material was changed to hide, and the name was ...
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