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I'm struggling to think of any situation where a 2yo would come in contact with a hippopotamus that doesn't involve criminal levels of negligence.
you can't keep track of where every hippopotamus is all the time. sometimes you're just going about your day and there one is, swallowing your kid.
He was just playing by himself near his home. And his home was near a lake in Uganda . https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/hippo-swallows-spits-out-2-year-old-boy-in-uganda/
I'm not sure I'd let my kid play outside unsupervised if my yard was occasionally visited by hippos.