{"id":468,"date":"2025-06-27T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T16:13:55","slug":"hippo-saved-from-wild-dog-attack-by-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Hippo Saved From Wild Dog Attack By Elephant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a young elephant bull intervened, it saved a hippo from a harrowing experience with wild dogs. Guide Moses Lebitla captured this unusual encounter for Latest Sightings at Xaranna Camp in the Okavango Delta on August 30, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjs3ubi9arC_9ethyWl46JeE0x7Xrnu96rjuRJ6zTVNo9LULUvkqy0RBNUcx-17oHbg4pBM2stNKOcVG4x4UVVBo-xKMHlLcya8lL43sf0C-J6rsvobU76v2LQ4gfMEzoZkIvRPDaYb6vx9VTCdnMp6kXdO4dSFQrHLlQ6KagpNFeNB5f-d-VRxYfgXWPY\/s1600\/Hippo%20Saved%20From%20Wild%20Dog%20Attack%20By%20Elephant.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To begin with, we see a pack of wild dogs vocalising with their high-pitched chattering call. Nearby, hippos gather around a small waterhole. Due to their size, people generally consider hippos too large for wild dogs to target\u2013although some records show them killing Cape buffalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elephants Save Hippo from Wild Dogs\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p8dtM1zRlDA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The dog\u2019s chattering signals their excitement as they hype one another up to hunt. However, no typical prey appears, so the behaviour didn\u2019t make sense. In any event, we don\u2019t have to wait long to learn the the wild dogs are actually planning to attack the hippos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a young elephant bull intervened, it saved a hippo from a harrowing experience with wild dogs. Guide Moses Lebitla captured this unusual encounter for Latest Sightings at Xaranna Camp &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}