The man’s story went viral on social networks Marius Els, known in South Africa for adopting a hippopotamus despite the warnings of others. Els viewed this animal as his “son,” a being who could not hurt anyone. But years later, he was found dead in a lake because of the hippopotamus Humphrey.
According to the British Daily Mail, this story begins in 2005 when Marius Els bought a small hippo, just 5 months old. But in other media they reassure him that he rescued her from an overflowing river.
Els brought the animal to his 160-hectare farm in Klerks dorp, a rural area in northwest South Africa. There were 20 other kinds of animals in that place, but his love for his new friend was different from the others.
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The man who named the hippopotamus Humpherey and his love for him was so great that he even built his own artificial lake. In January 2011, Marius was photographed with Humphrey and appeared on his back. By then, it had been 6 years since he had first come to his farm.
“Humphrey is like my son, he is like a human being. “There’s a relationship between me and Humphrey, and some people just don’t get it.”
The farmer received warnings that something was wrong with Humphrey on different occasions, as once a man in a canoe and his 7-year-old grandson had to climb a tree because a hippopotamus attacked them. Els came to the rescue with an apple and assured him that he was hungry.
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10 months after the photo, One Saturday in November, serious tragedy occurred when the hippopotamus jumped on Marius and bit him repeatedly. This animal’s jaw can exceed 1,800 pounds of pressure per square inch (PSI), almost twice that of a Bengal tiger.
An hour later, Els’ body was found in the artificial lagoon he had built for Humphrey. “Medics went to the scene and discovered that the man had been bitten multiple times by the animal and also sank into the river for an unknown amount of time,” private ambulance services spokesman Jeffrey Wicks told the national media. .
This story impressed the British press, which made several news stories to talk about the consequences of this relationship. For this reason, media such as ‘Mirror’ from time to time, Remember this news so people understand that wild animals cannot be tamed.
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