africa. you kind of think in children s books they look quite cuddly and come across as quite nice. this is a remarkable story. a toddler has survived after being swallowed and then regurgitated by hippopotamus. two years old, playing 800 yards from the shores of lake edward in west uganda. apparently the hippo grabbed him and was swallowing him when mansell what was happening and started to pelt the animal with stones and a hippo regurgitated the child and lumbered off back to the lake. police say it is the first kind of incident where a hippo straight out of lake edward and attacked a child. that child is fine. the boy was rushed to a clinic transferred to a hospital, given a rabies vaccine as a precaution and given back to his parents. the power of a hippo bite is three times