A man mauled by a territorial hippo described the encounter as a "bad day at the office".
Paul Templer was working as a tour guide on the Zambezi river in 1996, he would lead tourists down the flowing water past scenery filled with elephants, crocodiles and giraffes.
Also in the nearby menagerie were hippos, known to be territorial and vicious when they have to be and "on a day that started like any other", Paul had a brush with death after an altercation with the huge mammal and became trapped in its mouth.
