in a defensive posture. now, these animalsnsiv have anfi 18 hundred bite force. so i wanted f they wanted to sqh that child, they would have. what s more likely is this is a one in a million. million the hs the hippo was showing some aggression, some territorial display. the kid endeterritsplay, thed ut the hippo panicked, probablya ch just as much as the child did.in and sort of spit the hippo out,t sort of in o coincidence with tk rock throwing. the it s not that this hippo wanted to kill the child. otherwise, he absolutely would have. s thinko i think because thee fat, we assume they re nice. but are hippos are nasty animals, correct? cttucker? they re actually the deadliest land mammal in africa. they kill around five hundred people per year. and the reason being right there, they re actually not as aggressive as you might think. they re veryink,re very nervousy skittish animals. and what typically happens is if they sink down in the water where they feel completelyif the safe