Meanwhile, Templer turned his canoe around to get Evans. I don’t have time to drop my clients off.” He yells to Ben, one of the other guides, to retrieve the clients who were in the canoe that had been attacked.īen got the clients to safety on a rock in the middle of the river that hippos couldn’t climb. … So I know I’ve got to get him out quickly. “Evans is in the water, and the current is washing Evans toward a mama hippo and her calf 150 meters away. And Evans, the guide in the back of the canoe, catapulted out of the canoe.” The clients managed to remain in the canoe somehow. And I see the canoe, like the back of it, catapulted up into the air. But the third canoe had fallen back from the group and was off the planned course. He pulled into a little channel waiting on the others. Templer’s canoe led the way, with the other two canoes and kayak to follow. … The idea was let’s just paddle safely around the hippos.” But “we were getting closer, and I was trying to take evasive action. They weren’t alarmed at first as they were at a safe distance. That’s not unexpected on the Zambezi, Africa’s fourth-longest river. Richard I'Anson/Stone RF/Getty ImagesĮventually, they came across a pod of about a dozen hippos. Zambezi National Park in Zimbabwe affords many wildlife viewing opportunites, including one of Africa's most intriguing animals: hippos.
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