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Two Men Killed By Hippo The Namibian (Windhoek) August 2, 2004 Posted to the web August 2, 2004 Staff Reporter Windhoek TWO men were killed by a hippopotamus on Tuesday at Nachisangani village in the Caprivi, the Police reported on Thursday. According to the Katima Mulilo Police, the pair was apparently crossing the river in a canoe when they were attacked. The deceased have been identified as David Likando (24) and Donald Muyunda Muyanda (37). Their bodies have not yet been recovered. | ||
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Hippo aren't big pink pigs, danceing in ballet slippers, as Walt Disney would have you believe, are they?  This happens to villagers often with hippo, and crocs! SAD! | |||
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Last year, after I had put five, count 'em, five, 500 grain Woodleigh .458 solids through the vitals of my hippo and he had nonetheless managed to run into and collapse in a shallow river in the Selous, my PH, the much esteemed Lu�s Pedro de S� e Mello, told me, in no uncertain terms, "Put one in his brain. If he gets up now, he will come for us." I saw no tutu around his ample waist, so I shot him again in the head. Moral: 1. Disney was an entertaining fool. 2. Bring more solids next time. | |||
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I think this may very well be one perfect example of misinterpretation of events. These two guys were killed by a hippo right? Maybe...but I sincerely doubt it. Bodies not recovered?? In the Caprivi?? The two deceased most likely were not the most competent swimmers in the world for a start... and secondly...any of you been up there?? If you have you most likely would have noticed the odd scaley footed flat-dog. I was there in December and I assure you there is no shortage of large hungry looking reptiles in that part of the world. Yep...afraid my solid belief is that either the two guys drowned, or they got eaten by crocs. I could be wrong, but it has always been a bit of a bee in my bonnet - or a thorn in my side - that all the statistics about people killed by hippo are usually more about statistics of people tipped into water by hippo and then dealt with by either a strong current and a weak swimmer...or maybe a strong swimmer and an even stronger lizard! The families of the deceased have my sincere sympathy and I mean no disrespect, but it would be interesting to find out what time of day or night it was when it happened. And also whether they were crossing the river to put out fishing nets or maybe going home after a party at a mates house. | |||
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Quote: In this case, with the victims in a canoe, the actual death may have been administered by the crocs, or the river, and that is most likly! But they wouldn't have been in the water if the Hippo had not hit them like a 3 ton motorboat!  Quote: I think most of the Hippo deaths are really hippo deaths, because most are along the water's edge, and the victims are, most times, women, and children, there to gather water at dawn, when the hippo are coming back to the water, after a night in the bush. But as you say, the ones who are in canoes,are most likely, actually killed by drowning, or crocs. Quote: This is a possibility, we came up on a death, one morning, of a drunk local that staggered out of the bush in front of a government loury, and was hit, at just break of day. None of this takes away the treat a big hippo bull presents to the man between him and the water, however!  | |||
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I take it you have done some research on this then Mac? Or perhaps just spent a reasonable amount of time among them? I would be really interested to find out more about this if you have more to share  | |||
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Uhhhh, what the hell difference does it make? Deads dead! Population control is important and inadequate in Africa. | |||
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There was a tv program about a man who had been attacked while canoeing. He lost an arm and almost his life but he still canoes amongst the hippos !!There was another story about a man scuba diving without knowing that hippos were in the area !!He by some miracle survived too. From all I have heard they have volatile personalities. | |||
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baboonbreeder: Obviously, you are an experienced man and I always have made it a lifelong rule to never argue with "the man on the ground". You have been there. I was only in Africa once and was camped perhaps 30 miles from the Zambezi. (Chirisa district) I did hear stories of hippos coming ashore at night and rampaging near the river. In fact, I distinctly remember to this day (and it's about 11 years ago) reading in a Johannesburg newspaper about a young man who lost a leg and was totally castrated by a hippo. Surely they do attack people? If they bump a boat and people are thrown into the water, aren't they as much to blame as the crocs that get there and grab people who also may not be very good swimmers? | |||
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Quote: Baboonbreader, All this is opinion, on my part! I have nothing to back what I say, other than my word, and the testamony of many PHs,and locals, interviewed in Africa, and my own experience with hippo hunting on dry land! All my Hippo hunting has been done along the Luangwa River. Outside one in the water, all have been taken on dry land. In the area there are two villages, that have lost several people to hippos, over the years. And my PH has to sort out many each year, that have enjured, or killed folks around the river. The Luangwa River has, or had, a very healthy population of hippo, and crocs! I would say as heavily populated as any river in Africa. One year in my camp, just before I got there, an American hunter was killed by a hippo! It seems he had shot a hippo in the water earlier, and after breakfast, decided to walk back down stream, from camp,to see if it had floated yet. The PH was busy at the kitchen, organizeing the lunch box for the day's hunting. The Hunter picked up his rifle, and walked down river! When the PH asked where the client was, the tea boy told him he went that way, pointing down river! The PH grabbed a 500NE double, and started running down river. As he turned a bend in the river, he saw a hippo about to hit the unaware client, who was faceing the river, looking for his hippo. The PH dumped both barrels into the shoulder, and neck of the hippo, just as it hit the client in the back. The hippo, and the client went on into the river, both dead before they hit the water. According to the PH, he had committed the un-forgivable sin of getting between a hippo and the water, while walking along the river bank, at morning when hippo are still arriving at the water! It seems folks don't take hippo seriously, and that is because of the media's take on them as clowns, not dangerous at all. My experience is, if hunted properly on dry land, they are far harder to stop than Buffalo. If the brain is hit, the game is over, but if not, you will get a real workout dumping rounds in and out of a big double, before you sort him out! Like elephant, a solid shot to the head, will usually turn him, even if the brain isn't hit, but the scuffle is not over, and if he gets into the water without a brain shot he may be lost. If he gets to you, you will, most likely, be lost, as well | |||
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Arts!  heh heh heh...i hear you...deads dead for sure & it sure seems like there are more people every year & less hunting areas Mac - I cant help myself sometimes  I have to say I have never been one to say no to an opportunity to banter some. But - I do believe that hippos have been vastly overrated. And I dont think that disneys interpretation had much influence on that many people. I guide canoe safaris on the Zambezi sometimes. And there are definitely a couple of grumpy old men that you have to be careful of. But my position has always been that even if they were a toothless rabbit - the damn things weigh 2000 kilos plus y'kno...if a big dog comes walking up to you you dont exactly stick your hand out and say hi! Anything that is bigger than me deserves my full amount of respect i figure. And I must say - of the people that I have taken down the Zambezi - with a few memorable exceptions(exceptions only because the generally turned out to be real a'holes anyway) - almost every single one of them has had a healthy respect for them hippos, sometimes so much so that I have to work really hard to relax them so that they will ease up & enjoy their safari. I like hippo a lot. A few friends have been seriously hurt by them admittedly, some even come close to death, but thats life on safari. Bad things can happen - we never want them to, but it is the possibility that it could happen that really allows us to appreciate each moment of that safari I think. I truly believe that it is only once you have truly been close to death - in whichever way it happens - do you really appreciate how incredible life is. And if we are able to get that close while doing something that we really love to do, rather than say auto accidents etc, then long live safari I hope nobody finds this offensive coz it really is only meant with all of the best intentions... | |||
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