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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sicklebill" data-source="post: 3367950" data-attributes="member: 33954"><p>My school group was in Kafue National Park and we were out on a night drive in the Toyota bus; nearing the river we passed a hippo on the landward side, but got by OK, however coming back I suddenly saw two red eyes reflected in my spotlight, and the hippo coming right at us- it crashed into the side of the bus, buckling the doors, shook its head and trotted off to the river. It was an amazingly helpless feeling to see it coming and be unable to do anything except brace! That same year another trip here had a head-on with a hippo which badly damaged the 4WD, and knocked out driver and passenger, so it was an eventful year there and ZCCM which loaned us the vehicles was probably less than thrilled.</p></blockquote><p></p>