You looking at me?
A hippopotamus in the Kazinga Channel, a wide 32-kilometer long natural passage that links Lake Edward and Lake George in western Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. I was told later that the channel is home to one of the planet’s largest concentrations of hippos; in parts of the channel they indeed were the proverbial dime a dozen.
They are the second largest land animal on the planet, have eyes on top of their head and a pair of nostrils that close under water.
They swam and bobbed passively in the water as our boat glided by, veiling their reputation as one of the most dangerous and unpredictable animals in the world. Swimming nearby is not a good idea. Neither is trying to ride one.
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Images from 30 March 2017. Post last updated 29 January 2026.
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