Day: December 7, 2018

Hippo Attacks A Woman Canoeing In Zimbabwe

Heather Cassell
December 7, 2018

Kristen’s mother-in-law Martine Yaldor, a native of South Africa, told the Herald that her daughter-in-law was lucky that the hippo’s incisors missed her thigh. Instead they clamped her leg between its flatter grinding teeth.

“If one of those (incisor) teeth hit her femoral artery, we would probably be planning a funeral today,” Martine told the newspaper. “By all accounts, she was incredibly lucky.”