A South African farmer has been killed by the pet hippopotamus he raised from the age of five months, and which he once described as being like a son to him. Humphrey the Hippo gouged his 41-year-old owner Marius Els to death by repeatedly biting him in a vicious attack. The farmer's mutilated body was discovered submerged in a river running through his 400-acre farm in rural South Africa.
Els kept 20 different species of exotic animals, including giraffe and rhino, on his farm near Klerksdorp in NW South Africa. But he developed a special fondness for Humphrey, whom he bought aged just five months and for whom he even built a special lake. 6-year-old Humphrey weighed over a ton when he killed his adopted father.
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