All rights reserved. At Tsavo there is a submarine viewing tank but the hippos are not very cooperative and seem to have deserted the immediate area. Hippos are too well known to need description except to note that these huge, fat animals with enormous heads and short legs vary between 1350 kg and 2600 kg when fully grown. Their ears eyes and nostrils are so placed that they remain above water when the animal is submerged.
Hippos generally spend most of the day wallowing in shallow water coming out to graze only at night.
In pastures up to several km away from their aquatic haunts. They are voracious feeders and can consume up to 60 kg of vegetable matter each night. Hippos are very gregarious animals and live In schools of 15 to 30 individuals though, in certain places, the schools can be much larger. The wounds inflicted in such fights are often quite horrific and virtually every hippo you see will bear the scars of such conflicts. They're not normally dangerous to humans unless cornered or frightened but you should definitely keep your distance.