Hippos are an easy animal to poach as they gather in water holes for extended periods of time, allow hunters to kill several at a time. They are hunted for their tusks (ivory), body parts for alternative medicines, meat for exotic foods.
Very large nile crocodiles can take down adult hippos. Prides of lions will hunt for the injured or old hippos.
Rifle 30-6 hunting for hippos
Hippos are herbavours, they don't hunt, and if they did I'd suspect that they would lay in wait in the water like crocodiles
Hippos are hunted mainly for their teeth, known as hippo ivory.
they used spears and swords
Hippos don't hunt other animals. They are herbivores. Only very large crocodiles can kill adult hippos. Lion prides take on injured, old, or sick adult hippos. Young hippos are prey for lions and crocodiles.
I think to please the gods To keep the hippos from eating the crops too
People that live in the regions that possess the hippopotamus will sometimes hunt it.
Yes they do because it rains down there and hippos live in water
Adult hippos do not have any natural predators. But young ones are usually killed by Nile crocodiles, lions and hyenas.
In the Sahara. used to hunt giant catfish, hippos, crocidile
yes, but it usually takes the skill of the whole pride including the strength of the males & usually only if there are weak isolated individuals. Lions thus rarely hunt hippos