Delayed Murchison Falls, Pt. 2

I forgot to tell y'all about the most interesting thing that happened at Murchison Falls. During the second night, around 4am, the other guy in my tent woke up trying to tell me there was something outside the tent. The campsite we were in has something of tame resident family of warthogs that eat grass and if you leave food in the open get at it too. Half asleep I told him it was probably the warthogs and they'd go away. To this he responded "Ben, I think it's a whole lot bigger than a warthog". Well, we opened up the fly to the tent and about a half meter away from us was a pretty large sized hippo just munching away on the grass outside the tent. Fully awake now, I closed up the tent and we just waited for a good hour before the hippo moved on. Hippos kill more people than any other mammal in Africa, but unless you disturb it they won't harm you. So it was a little intense having this several ton mammoth animal a meter away from us for an hour, but pretty cool at the same time.