Hippo 'Shows Who's Boss' as It Stares Down Photographer

A photographer in Botswana came into the sights of a particularly grumpy-looking hippo, with the intense results shared to TikTok on March 26.

Tanzania-based photographer Jack Swynnerton was visiting Botswana’s “incredible” Okavango Delta when he captured slow-motion footage of the hippo using his Sony α7R III camera.

Swynnerton told Storyful that the footage was captured on January 28. His caption for the stern-looking animal reads, “an aggressive hippo shows who’s boss”.

Certainly, the hippo doesn’t appear to be an animal to trifle with, though the footage does feature a small bird who doesn’t seem too intimated by the size of the territorial animal. Credit: Jack Swynnerton via Storyful