{"id":12743,"date":"2022-12-17T14:46:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=12743"},"modified":"2022-12-17T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:48:00","slug":"hippo-swallows-toddler-then-spits-him-out-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/hippo-swallows-toddler-then-spits-him-out-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippo swallows toddler, then spits him out alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hippo swallows toddler, then spits him out alive. A two-year-old boy who was swallowed whole by a rogue hippopotamus in Uganda somehow survived. After a bystander threw stones at the animal, the hippo spit the toddler back out, according to a police report cited by Capital FM Uganda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The child was reportedly playing on the margins of a lake near his home in Katwe Kabatoro town on December 4 when the ravenous hippo grabbed him up with its powerful jaws.<\/p>\n

Chrispas Bagonza, a bystander, started throwing boulders at the beast before it could consume the child fully. The boy was “vomited” back up by the animal as a result, Capital FM Uganda continued.<\/p>\n

The beast snatched the child by the head and gobbled half of his body, according to the police, who named the child as Iga Paul.<\/p>\n

They stated that the youngster suffered hand injuries and had been sent to the hospital for additional care.<\/p>\n

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“The victim received emergency treatment for hand injuries at a nearby clinic before being taken to Bwera Hospital for additional care. After obtaining a rabies vaccination, he made a full recovery and was allowed to go home. After that, the police gave him to his parents,” the officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n

However, a police spokeswoman cautioned parents staying near wildlife areas, such as lakes, to be alert for stray animals that could harm them, like crocodiles and hippos.<\/p>\n

Despite being herbivores, hippopotamuses may become rather hostile when provoked. They have also been seen charging at boats and canoes and assaulting them.<\/p>\n

In one incident that went viral on the internet, three lions tried to cross the Selinda Reserve spillway in Botswana a few months ago, but an enraged hippo stopped them. The incident’s video was uploaded on YouTube by the Great Plains Conservation, which described it as “an unforgettable event.”<\/p>\n

According to AZ Animals, hippo attacks cause roughly 500 human fatalities each year in Africa. There are a startlingly large number of them, outnumbering almost every other mammal on the earth. Hippos are among the deadliest land animals in the world, they believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hippo swallows toddler, then spits him out alive. A two-year-old boy who was swallowed whole by a rogue hippopotamus in Uganda somehow survived. After a bystander threw stones at the animal, the hippo spit the toddler back out, according to a police report cited by Capital FM Uganda. The child was reportedly playing on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6859,539],"class_list":["post-12743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-uganda","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}