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NitroX
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Hippo "saves" wildebeest ...
#175831 - 20/02/11 02:42 AM

Hippo "saves" wildebeest ...

Ha ha, actually the hippo picked up the wildebeest and drowned it in deeper water.

Per the photographer the hippo "euthanized" the wildbeest out of mercy or kindness ...

What do you think?

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: NitroX]
#175881 - 20/02/11 08:01 PM

3 things come to mind:
1) That's a bloody small Wildebeest.
2) That's a bloody massive hippo.
3) photo shop.

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NitroX
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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: Rule303]
#175935 - 21/02/11 10:33 AM

No not photoshopped. Lots of photos of the sequence of events.

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: NitroX]
#175937 - 21/02/11 10:39 AM

I think the wildebeast was probably doing OK until the hippo caught it trespassing.

"Euthanized" - yeah - that's a good one.

They swim just fine if not attached to a croc, or in this case, a hippo.

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: DarylS]
#175938 - 21/02/11 10:45 AM

I looked around at the site shown on the copyright of the picture but didn't see that one.

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mitchellkrog.com/photo-galleries/

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: AkMike]
#175945 - 21/02/11 01:28 PM

hippos often readily eat meat including cannibilising their own.. there has been quite a few recorded on Nat Geo channel....it looks like a taste test to me.

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: gryphon]
#175951 - 21/02/11 04:43 PM

The story on the website, was something like the wildebeest got stuck in the mud crossing the river.

The hippos approached it looking "concerned" about its welfare.

One hippo tried to free it, but broke the back of the wildebeest doing so.

The other hippos looked concerned about the wildebeest's plight.

Another hippo took hold of the wildebeest, and "euthanised" it, drowning it in deeper water, before letting it go to float away, to "put the hippo out of its misery".

MMmmmmmmmmmm, yeah right!

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: NitroX]
#175952 - 21/02/11 04:44 PM

But the photographers photos are excellent btw.

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: NitroX]
#175963 - 21/02/11 07:16 PM

What a joke. Hippos are just plain cranky, from what I've read.

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: NitroX]
#176192 - 25/02/11 08:18 AM

Quote:

The story on the website, was something like the wildebeest got stuck in the mud crossing the river.

The hippos approached it looking "concerned" about its welfare.

One hippo tried to free it, but broke the back of the wildebeest doing so.

The other hippos looked concerned about the wildebeest's plight.

Another hippo took hold of the wildebeest, and "euthanised" it, drowning it in deeper water, before letting it go to float away, to "put the hippo out of its misery".

MMmmmmmmmmmm, yeah right!

I have no doubt that tons of lobotomized greenies believe this story.

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tinker
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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: EricD]
#176202 - 25/02/11 03:36 PM

Hippo.

Saving a wildebeest.

Oh please.

I need a drink.
A drink anyone..?

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Re: Hippo "saves" wildebeest ... [Re: tinker]
#176206 - 25/02/11 05:19 PM

Greenies don't need the surgical procedure. It's part of their genetic inheritance.

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