--- title: Hippo Charges Boat on Safari: Video description: Watch a hippo get close to a boat on the Chobe River in Kasane Botswana canonical: https://time.com/3669073/hippo-charges-boat/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-15T15:35:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:58.580Z og:title: Watch a Hippo Chase a Boat Full of People on Safari og:description: No word on whether it was a hungry hungry hippo og:url: https://time.com/3669073/hippo-charges-boat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Hippo Chase a Boat Full of People on Safari twitter:description: No word on whether it was a hungry hungry hippo twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Hippo Chase a Boat Full of People on Safari  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 15, 2015 3:35 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 15, 2015 3:35 PM UTC Tourists on safari got up close and personal with a hippopotamus. In the description of this viral video on YouTube, user David Jackson says his son Craig Clive Jackson captured the footage from a boat on the Chobe River during a safari in Kasane, Botswana. “We were traveling on the Chobe River in Botswana, when we came across this hippo which appeared to want to charge the boat,” the user wrote. “The Hippo was closer to the boat than what it appears on the video.” No word on whether it was a [hungry hungry hippo](http://www.target.com/p/hasbro-hungry-hungry-hippos-game/-/A-14258064). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3669073/hippo-charges-boat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3669073/hippo-charges-boat/"},"headline":"Watch a Hippo Chase a Boat Full of People on Safari","datePublished":"2015-01-15T15:35:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:58.580Z","description":"No word on whether it was a hungry hungry hippo","url":"https://time.com/3669073/hippo-charges-boat/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3669073/hippo-charges-boat/","name":"Watch a Hippo Chase a Boat Full of People on Safari"}}]}] ```