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April 17, 2024

From the chronicles of “There’s something you don’t see every day” comes a hippo leisurely wandering the streets of an African suburb.

Grassy Park residents captured photos and videos of the hippo this past weekend after it broke through a fence at the Rondevlei Nature Reserve. One resident even had the hippo run through his yard and break his fence after it became cornered by police. The fence being fairly new, combined with the hippo’s poor eyesight, may have contributed to it walking through the barricade and going for a midnight stroll. 

If a wild hippo got loose in my neighborhood, I think a lot of us would react like this. I know I’m not trying to play chicken with that thing. 

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