teeth, they have this incredible bite force and they have no problem taking on any animal or human beings stand in their way. tucker: people to hand raise them? not only do some people hand raise them, pablo escobar the famous drug dealer imported some into columbia and if you want to talk about hippos and you want to talk about real hippo problems, the biggest hippo problem in the world are the hippos breeding like crazy in the rio magdalena and columbia central america, these are african animals, they shouldn t be there. you want to hear a crazy story look into that because they are unbelievable what s going on and that is a status symbol or it was for pablo, they collect these animals and keep these animals as a status symbol because of their giant stature. even those hand raised ones are causing some problems in colombia. tucker: what a misleading animal, i want think they were breeding like rabbits but apparently they are amazing,
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