A man on his honeymoon in Botswana is reported to have been disembowelled after a hippo attacked his canoe, leaving his intestines hanging from his back. His wife is described as risking her own life to help during the attack, according to one account.
Other coverage frames the event as a first-person experience, emphasizing the danger of hippos—particularly mother hippos protecting their young—and the rapid escalation that can occur in the wild. While one outlet leads with the dramatic aftermath and the wife’s intervention, the other focuses more on the broader context of the animal’s behavior and the personal experience of surviving the incident. Both accounts treat the attack as happening during the honeymoon and place the incident in Botswana.
