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40hz:
+1! My sister had a little mixed breed (Pookie) who was like that. She'd never eat alone. Dinner in the same room with the rest of the family also eating was her rule. And if she went and got herself a cookie (she was one of those rare dogs that could self-regulate their treat intake) she always brought two back and dropped one by whoever else was in the room. (Although being a dog, she'd almost always eat the second one a short while after she finished the first. But only if the person said "You eat it." first.
40hz:
Fear the Hippo!
A hippo in Botswana, apparently quite annoyed by the paparazzi, made its feelings well known when it thundered after a boatload of tourists. The result, captured in the video below, is kinda like Jaws meets Moby Dick meets the "Must go faster!!" scene in Jurassic Park.
Discovery News reports:
Members of a tour group on Botswana's Chobe River got an unexpected scare when their boat nearly ran afoul of the business end of a hippo in hot pursuit.
Luckily for the Internet, David Jackson and his son Craig had an iPhone at the ready and caught the chase on video. (See the footage below, courtesy of YouTube/Craig Clive Jackson and Pangolin Photo Safaris.)
"The hippo was closer to the boat than what it appears on the video," the elder Jackson wrote on YouTube. "It is amazing how fast a hippo can move in water."
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You can see it in real time here. It's happening faster than the above video might lead you to expect.
Shades:
To my knowledge, hippo's kill much more Africans than lion(ess)'s do. Temper, tons and very(!) territorial. Don't let their looks fool you.
mouser:
Cat and horse are friends:
Giampy:
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