This rare sight was recorded by a tourist while sightseeing in the Klein Karoo area in South Africa. In the clip, discovering that the rhino was intending to invade its territory, the hippo opened its mouth wide and threatened.

However, when the rhinoceros refused to leave the puddle, the hippopotamus suddenly “went mad”, rushed to grab the opponent’s head and pushed it down into the water.

Due to the horns removed, the rhino was unable to withstand the sudden attack of the hippo. In the end, it was bitten by the opponent repeatedly to the point of being unable to resist. It is known that after the attack, the rhino did not survive.

Hippo is a mammal weighing about 1.5 – 4 tons, adults can be more than 4m long. The Greeks named hippos “river horses,” and they spend 16 hours a day immersed in rivers or lakes in sub-Saharan Africa, exposing only their eyes and nostrils.

Although mainly eating plants, hippos are one of the most ferocious animals on Earth. It can bite through a canoe with its powerful jaws and every year hippos kill around 500 people in Africa.

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