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The relationship between humans and hippopotamuses is ancient, complex, and increasingly urgent. Hippos have been worshipped, hunted, displayed in zoos, and accidentally introduced as invasive species into rivers they were never supposed to inhabit. They kill an estimated 500 people per year — more than any other large land mammal in Africa — and are simultaneously one of the continent’s most important ecological engineers, fertilising entire river systems through their daily movements between land and water.
This section covers every dimension of the hippo-human relationship: conservation status and the threats driving population decline, where to see hippos in the wild, the science behind hippo-related deaths and how to avoid them, the extraordinary story of Pablo Escobar’s hippos in Colombia, and what is being done globally to protect a species that has survived for millions of years but faces its most serious pressures yet in the twenty-first century.
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