A baby hippo was left alone, after a few minutes, something scary happen

How will you react if a lonely baby hippo was eaten by a humongous crocodile?

Crocodile kills an innocent baby Hippo

A hippopotamus or hippo for short is a large plant eating mammal found in sub-Saharan Africa. These are one of the two existent specifies in the Hippopotamidae. The name comes from a Greek word which means “river horse”. They are the third largest and the heaviest land warm-blooded vertebrate after elephant and rhinoceros. They weight at least 1,500 kilograms.Their common ancestors are whales and hippos that was bust from other even-toed ungulates 60 million years ago. A hippopotamus fossil was found in Africa and it was dated back to 16 million years ago.

They are semi-aquatic mammals that live in rivers, lakes and mangrove swamps. They usually consist of five to thirty females and young which leads by a territorial bull. They try to remain cool during the day by dipping themselves in water or mud. They multiply and give birth in water. However, they are not territorial on land and build their nest near the water. They are a good swimmer but they cannot float.

They are vegetarian and can eat around 80 pounds of grass every night, based on National Geographic data. They can travel up to 10 kilometers in one night before they eat again. Aside from grass, they can also eat fruits that they can see during their evening hunt.

Do you know what is the primary predator of hippopotamus? A crocodile is one of them. In the video below, you can see a helpless baby hippo being eaten by a large crocodile. Can you imagine that the crocodile can gobble down a 750 kilo baby hippo? The crocodile tries to turn on the mud just to kill this baby hippo.

What can you say about the video and the baby hippo which was partake by a hungry crocodile?

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