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Amazing Alternative Pet -- a Hippo

(Watch this video: 3 minutes, 5 seconds)


The hippo kills more humans in Africa than any other wild mammal, but you’d never know it from watching this video.

Jessica, the hippo, has taken to a family in South Africa, where she sleeps with the dogs, helps herself to snacks in the kitchen, and gets a nightly massage before heading off to bed.

Having a pet is actually great for your health. Owning a dog, for instance, has been shown to have a significant impact on survival rates in heart attack victims and keep your blood pressure levels in a healthy range.

Owning a pet is also known to:

  • Reduce the risk of asthma in children exposed to pet allergens during the first year of life

  • Reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease

  • Provide better physical and psychological well-being in community-dwelling older people

I can’t say I’d recommend a hippo as the ideal family pet, but you can certainly see from the family’s faces in this video that they’re thrilled to have Jessica! See this family’s hippo “daughter,” as they call her, for yourself by watching the video. Unbelievable!



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Posted On Oct 19, 2007
Cute, but in the wilds of Africa Hippos kill more humans than snakes and crocks combine annually...mosquitos are still the number one wild killer of humans there though...but man himself is a close second in African civil/rebel/jihadist/economic wars and genocides (Dafur) there...

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Posted On Oct 19, 2007
Thats the kind of pet I want to pay a visit to my not so nice neighbor!

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Posted On Oct 24, 2007
I lost my audio on my computer, but I got the idea. This is amazing.

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Posted On Nov 08, 2007

amazing how a hippo can be so domesticated when the opportunity to go into the wild is so near.

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Posted On Oct 22, 2007
that is one hungry hungry hippo

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