Watch Hippos Save a Wildebeest From the Jaws of a Crocodile
Tourists visiting the Kruger National Park in South Africa posted a video on YouTube of a crocodile trying to drag a wildebeest into the water. They struggle for a while…
LULIMIBI, EASTERN DRC – JULY 31: Recovering hippo populations close to the ICCN Ranger station on July 31, 2013 in Lulimibi, Lake Edward. Lake Edward once housed the largest hippo population in the world, a figure decimated by conflict since 1994. Hippo meat formed a staple of the diet of armies and militias alike, reducing the population to a figure close to 600 of what was once over 30 000. Lulimibi is in the ‘Block V’ area of Virunga National Park. UK company Soco International PLC is planning to explore for oil in DRC’s Virunga National Park, a protected World Heritage Site and most biodiverse park in Africa. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images for WWF-Canon)
(Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images for WWF-Canon)Tourists visiting the Kruger National Park in South Africa posted a video on YouTube of a crocodile trying to drag a wildebeest into the water. They struggle for a while but just as the wildebeest is about to go down, two hippos swim up and scare the croc away.
Hippos are very territorial so that's probably why they did it, but it's still pretty amazing.
