How Hippos 🦛 Are Turning Cannibal and How it Kills them!
Botswana’s Okavango Delta is home to one of the world’s largest hippo populations. Despite their iconic status, these giant “river horses” are even more rare than African elephants, thanks to decades of targeting by poachers … and now a deadly drought.
When vegetation is scarce, hippos sometimes eat meat. But scientists have recently observed the herbivores feeding on carcasses in wet seasons, too. What’s behind this change in diet? Are hippos carnivores now? And could eating meat even be killing them?
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