When water levels get low Hippos can step on each other toes and normally this end in a fight or a chase and sometimes to the death of the opponent. Hippos are very territorial especially when it comes to females and younger bulls trying their luck in the pod.

These two hippo bulls chased each other in the Sabie River trying to establish dominance in the area. Hippo's kill the most people in African each year around 2000 people a year get attack by Hippoes as people and these large animals live in the same areas in Africa, next to waterholes and rivers.