In between chimp tracking expeditions, Lake Tanganyika beckons for snorkelling, kayaking and hippo- and crocodile-spotting forays.
An onyx-winged cormorant arced downward, diving below the inky water while a hippo yawned its tusky jaws.
From the Democratic Republic of Congo, now, we bring you the story of Osama the Hippo.
Villagers started calling the hippo Osama bin Laden, Zayeed says, because he's powerful, deadly, and elusive.
They include a giraffe, two lions, four zebras, a rhino and a pygmy hippo.
The task of organizing hunting parties to try to shoot this hippo fell to several local chiefs.
It handles like a hippo and basically has a ladder on the side for zombies to climb onboard.
The one-year-old hippo calf christened Owen was found alone and dehydrated by wildlife rangers near the Indian Ocean.
It took ropes, boats, nets and cars though the hippo was tired he was still fast and slippery.
Tangled in fishing ropes, angry and tired, the hippo did not seem to appreciate our rescue at all.
We zipped past islands of emerald hippo grass and pairs of moody crocodiles, docking on the Botswana side of the river.
Lafarge Eco Systems agreed to provide a home for the baby hippo and I rushed to Malindi to collect him.
He says the hippo sprang from the water, furiously attacked the canoe, then slipped back below the surface of the river.
Hunters can further customize their boots by providing their own animal hides--perhaps that of an elephant or hippo from an African safari.
One magnificently weird interview is conducted as the subject feeds a hippo.
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"The hippo follows the tortoise around and licks his face, " she said.
Hundreds of people came to watch the efforts to rescue the hippo.
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In the middle ages, philandering, theologian wanna-be Augstine of Hippo, as he would come to be known, was into wine, women and song.
He, or she, lives in the Congo River, and the hippo is making things very difficult and dangerous for people in the village of Bukhama.
It focuses on a lion, a zebra, a giraffe and a hippo who escape from the Central Park Zoo and end up in the wilds of Madagascar.
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The unusual relationship between this baby hippo and the ancient tortoise amazed people the world over and has featured in most countries on television and in news papers.
That changed Saturday, soon after Theresa Nash went on CNN, clutching Ben's beloved teddy bear and Henry's stuffed hippo as she sat beside a picture of the two boys.
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TARA's founders, raves about a recent find in the Tassili n'Ajjer range: an anatomically perfect four-metre-long carving of a hippo hunted by an Egyptian-looking figure with a superbly sinuous bow.
Roaming the reserve are the so-called big five--lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo--in addition to hippo, giraffe, zebra, warthog, hyena, springbok, wildebeest, and a multitude of smaller creatures and birds.
Mzee, our 130 year old tortoise, just happened to be nearby and he was very surprised by Owen's odd behavior cowering behind him as a baby hippo does to its mother.
Ms Kimoti said that if the 300kg hippo continued to thrive then in the next few weeks they would allow the public to see the unlikely pair together before they are separated.
Perlman hired Edwin Hippo of Southern Illinois University, who'd studied catalytic coal-to-gas methods, while Mandell mounted a nationwide search for Nicholas Nahas, who'd developed crucial technologies while at Exxon in the 1970s.
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