We saw hippos throughout Tanzania and Kenya, but since they are nocturnal and aquatic they tend to spend most of their daylight hours sleeping fitfully and coming up only to breath, so typical photos of them are just eyes nostrils and ears like the picture below.
Sometimes we were able to get near their areas of activity while they were still active like in this photo from the
Maasai Mara where the dining room of our lodge looked out over their resting waters. These two were tussling over god knows what, but they certainly helped remind us that the hippo kills more people in Africa every year than the lion does. Being short sighted, irritable and violent is a way of life for these guys.
Since they have such a large volume and a comparatively small surface area they rarely get out of the water for long as they overheat and sunburn very easily. However, this one was having a bathroom break by the shore of
Lake Naivasha while we were having our boat tour and gave us some obliging pictures before charging into the water and driving us away.
Sometimes we were able to get near their areas of activity while they were still active like in this photo from the Maasai Mara where the dining room of our lodge looked out over their resting waters. These two were tussling over god knows what, but they certainly helped remind us that the hippo kills more people in Africa every year than the lion does. Being short sighted, irritable and violent is a way of life for these guys.
Since they have such a large volume and a comparatively small surface area they rarely get out of the water for long as they overheat and sunburn very easily. However, this one was having a bathroom break by the shore of Lake Naivasha while we were having our boat tour and gave us some obliging pictures before charging into the water and driving us away.
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