When the zookeeper attempted to break up the hippo’s tight with another territorial male inside their enclosure in June 2023, the enraged hippo began to charge at him.
At the Changsha Ecological Zoo in China’s Hunan province, heart-stopping video showed the guy, who had gone into the cage to feed the animal, frantically escaping the pen to escape a deadly attack.
With the hippo poised to launch what may have been a fatal attack, the zoo keeper slipped over the wet concrete surface entrance in the middle of the panic to escape for his life.
The man used his arms and feet to keep the ravenous hippo from closing in on him while it bared its massive fangs in a menacing show.
As it continued to eat greens, the hippo briefly left its keeper alone. However, as the guy got back up, the hippo attacked him once more as he was about to leave the enclosure.
But he managed to flee to safety this time.
