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The 1996 Zambezi River hippopotamus attack was an incident on the Zambezi River, Zimbabwe, near Victoria Falls on 9 March 1996 where a hippopotamus attacked two river tour guides killing one and injuring the other.
Aerial view of the North Branch of the Chicago River, from the south, with Goose Island, near center. Early settlers named the North Branch of the Chicago River the Guarie River, or Gary's River, after a trader who may have settled the west bank of the river a short distance north of Wolf Point, at what is now Fulton Street.
After confirming the hippo is indeed food, the shark bites the side, but the massive girth combined with the enormous weight of the hippo is too much of a mouthful for the smaller shark. Even the thin skin in the back leg proves too tough. Despite this, the shark does manage to rip off the hippo's tail. All while, the hippo has been roaring in ...
The largest odd-toed ungulates are rhinoceroses, and the extinct Paraceratherium, a hornless rhino from the Oligocene, is considered one of the largest land mammals of all time. [4] At the other extreme, an early member of the order, the prehistoric horse Eohippus , had a withers height of only 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in). [ 5 ]
A massive snapping turtle lounging on a bed of rusty chains in the Chicago River has won hearts on the internet after a viral video circulated Twitter.
The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (/ ˌ h ɪ p ə ˈ p ɒ t ə m ə s /; pl.: hippopotamuses; often shortened to hippo (pl.: hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus and river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.
A hippopotamus attacked and killed a tourist from Taiwan who was taking photographs on the shore of Lake Naivasha. The man was pronounced dead on arrival at the Naivasha District Hospital, while ...
CHICAGO - The Chicago River turning green kicked off Chicago's St. Patrick's day festivities this morning. Thousands looked on and then stuck around for the annual downtown parade that made its ...