All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . ts eyes so that it cannot see and thus force it totake to the water again. It does not take long to kill the beast once it isbrought into shallow water. The various expeditions up the River Nile have been seriously hamperedby the hippo, which would swim out under the light, shallow-draught boats andeither upset them or crush their bottoms in. Before the late war in the Sou-dan, the hippo used to be seen feeding far down the Nile, but now it has van-ished, except in the parts of the river above Khartoum. Now that Khartoumis in the hands of civiliz
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . ts eyes so that it cannot see and thus force it totake to the water again. It does not take long to kill the beast once it isbrought into shallow water. The various expeditions up the River Nile have been seriously hamperedby the hippo, which would swim out under the light, shallow-draught boats andeither upset them or crush their bottoms in. Before the late war in the Sou-dan, the hippo used to be seen feeding far down the Nile, but now it has van-ished, except in the parts of the river above Khartoum. Now that Khartoumis in the hands of civilized people the hippo will probably be driven backaltogether to the great lakes. It seems that at one time the hippo livedas far north as Cairo, until it was exterminated by man. Livingstone men-tioned having seen immense numbers of hippos feeding along the shores ofthe Albert and Victoria Nyanza. The method of killing the hippo used bythe natives living near the lakes was so crude that the vast number of thecreatures never seemed to be A PAIR OF TOUCANS EATING BANANAS.
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