Hippo dentist treats animals by sticking to jaws

Hippos can be very aggressive animals, but this dentist doesn’t seem to be afraid to step into their deadly jaws.

Hippo dentist treats animals by sticking to jaws

Hippos can be very aggressive animals. But this hippo dentist doesn’t seem to mind too much and doesn’t mind getting into their deadly jaws to cure them.

How a hippo dentist works

Hippos are herbivorous animals , meaning they feed primarily on plants and fruits. However, they are universally regarded as one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. These gigantic mammals can, in fact, be very aggressive even towards humans and even attack without even being provoked.

They can affect humans on a boat or on land. According to a study conducted by Mother Nature Network , every year, in Africa alone, these animals kill 2,900 people.

The hippopotamus has frightening teeth and, with them, can squeeze a person between its jaws with some ease.

It is useless to try to escape. Hippos may look rather fat and clumsy, but they are much faster than humans.

However, there is one dentist who does not seem to fear being killed by these hippos while doing his job.

A job that, to be completed, obviously requires an arm to be inserted directly into the mouth.

How can teeth be treated without the “patient” opening his jaws wide?

Although many may consider him crazy, he’s really not. Because he is a zoo veterinarian.

The man, in fact, regularly checks the teeth of hippos and is very sure of what he is doing. It could not be otherwise.

Some curiosities about hippopotamuses

The hippopotamus has gone down from 3.30 to 3.75 my has gone up by about 1.50 m. Its weight ranges from 1.4 to 3 tons. The Nile Valley is still home to hippopotamuses but, at this point, they do not go beyond Sudan. The last Egyptian specimen was killed in 1816. Today, they are found mainly in much of Africa, such as Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland and the Republic of South Africa. In the internal territories, the hippopotamus can live up to 2000 meters above sea level , because it tolerates well temperatures that drop to almost 0 ° C towards the morning, during the dry season.

The hippopotamus’s habit of uprooting the grass that has been swept away within its grazing areas is useful for avoiding savanna fires, within a radius of 3 km along the banks of watercourses. Hippos are herbivores and are among the most aggressive.

In fact, they surpass even the ferocious African buffaloes and have even been known to put elephants and rhinoceroses to flight. In water, this mammal is even faster and more lethal. In the 1960s, at the mouth of the St. Lucia River in South Africa, a specimen killed a mako shark that had attacked it.

However, the hippopotamus can live peacefully in the vicinity of humans. But population growth and the need for arable land have led to the death of many of them in Africa. In some regions, however, farmers manage to drive off these voracious herbivores with non-violent methods.

Take Tonga, for example. They place, around cultivated fields, fences made of ropes to which they attach boxes filled with pebbles. When a keeper sees a hippo approaching, he shakes the rope: the vibrations spread, the boxes sway, the pebbles rattle and the hippos disappear.