Hippo bites croc – Our amazing front page picture

Posted: November 17th, 2009 | By Ray Hartley | Posted in General | Tagged as , , , , , ,
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Our caption story: This spectacular, rare battle of the beasts was caught by wildlife photographer Vaclav Silha. The 45-year-old Czech got the shock of his life after setting up his camera on the banks of the Nile in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, to take snaps of a group of 50 hippos bathing in the river.
A colossal fight broke out between the group and a crocodile that strayed too close to a mother and her calves.

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carl

November 17, 2009 at 2:02 pm

The Nile does not flow through the Serengeti

 

Ted Rademacher

November 17, 2009 at 3:28 pm

The croc sometimes gets a baby hippo. See “Monster croc hauls dead baby hippo” on Youtube.

 

Roger Netting

November 17, 2009 at 10:50 pm

Surely an African newspaper should not make such a basic error as stating that the Nile flows through the Serengeti. The acknowledged source is near Jinja in Uganda.

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