Monday, November 14, 2011

Farmer gouged to death by pet hippo Humphrey who was 'like a son to him'

A South African farmer has been killed by the pet hippopotamus he raised from the age of five months, and which he once described as being 'like a son' to him.

Humphrey the Hippo gouged owner Marius Els, 41, to death by repeatedly biting him in a vicious attack on Saturday night.

The farmer's mutilated body was discovered submerged in a river running through his 400-acre farm in rural South Africa.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061286/Farmer-Marius-Els-gouged-death-pet-hippo-Humphrey-like-son.html

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