Do hippos really kill 500 people a year?

Ungainly as it is, the hippopotamus is the world's deadliest large land mammal, killing an estimated 500 people per year in Africa. Hippos are aggressive creatures, and they have very sharp teeth. And you would not want to get stuck under one; at up to 2,750kg they can crush a human to death. read more

One of the reasons hippos kill so many people per year is because the people do not know where the hippos are. Suddenly they emerge in a high speed and people stand in their way get injured or killed. Hippos moves fast like heavy tanks, panser wagons. According to Wikipedia hippos have been clocked at 30 km/h (19 mph) over short distances. read more

Apparently, they kill hundreds of people each year. First, a bit on the hippo. They are the third largest land mammal on earth, after the elephant and the rhinoceros. read more