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2023-10-02 18:38:48 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Hippos are vegetarian and don't eat any meat (including humans). The rest of the story is substantially true - in 2005 a South African farmer adopted a hippo and in 2011 it gored him to death. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061286/Farmer-Marius-Els-gouged-death-pet-hippo-Humphrey-like-son.html

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• Hippos are vegetarian and don't eat any meat (including humans). The rest of the story is substantially true - in 2005 a South African farmer adopted a hippo and in 2011 it gored him to death. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061286/Farmer-Marius-Els-gouged-death-pet-hippo-Humphrey-like-son.html