Maybe now people will believe just how dangerous hippos can be.

A Czech wildlife photographer, Vaclav Silha, recently captured images of a fully grown Nile crocodile being killed by an enraged hippopotamus. The Telegraph has the story and photos.

We in the United States have a hard time imagining that a hippo could do that. The hippos we see mostly are in cartoons, where they’re pink and chubby and oh-so-harmless. Not so in real life. The 2-ton mammals have long, razor-sharp fighting tusks that can quite literally bite through a human being. They’re notoriously ill-tempered. In sub-Saharan Africa, hippos are considered (along with the Cape buffalo and the crocodile) to be the creatures most dangerous to humans.

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