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Welcome to the Jungle
There’s nothing playful about a hippo’s open chops in Botswana’s Okavango Delta. These aggressive, big-mouthed giants are said to kill more people in Africa than any other animal. When a hippo charges, writes photographer Frans Lanting, “you forget its ecological role as keeper of swamps, dredger of channels, and fertilizer of vegetation. At that moment it is a raiser of hair and a merchant of adrenaline.”
Photograph by Frans Lanting
From 100 Best Wildlife Pictures, 2002
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