Stop it. Stop it,” she panicked while screaming at a rally in Gwanda last year attempting to bring order to the Zanu PF cheflings as they scrabbled for space in her campaign trail of Matabeleland South. Never before in human history has it ever been that the wife of a Head of State screams like a toddler fighting for attention. The events that have engulfed the nation in recent years just call for silence as we run out of words, we are better-off driving to Hwange to watch hippos and crocodiles. It is there that we see wonders and thunder.
According to the latest animal attack casualty statistics, the hippo may seem slow, but this monster can run very fast on land and has teeth that while they don’t seem sharp, are capable of goring humans and animals. It is particulaly defensive around its young ones. Analysts say that the hippo kills more people each year than the lion and the elephant.
Scientists rank the hippo number 5 most powerful animal in the world. It is one of the most feared animals in Africa. Being highly territorial and aggressive, it has been known to knock over small boats and attack the crew. Only the female hippos bite force has been measured since the male was much too aggressive to test, but it measured at a whopping 1821 pounds per square inch. The word Hippopotamus comes from the Greek “water-horse” due to the hippo’s fondness for water. The hippo’s closest cousins are whales and cows. They belong to the order Artiodactyla which includes most hoofed animals, so camels, horses and goats are also related to hippos. – ListVerse