Marius Els raised Humphrey the hippo 'like a son' and even built a huge lake on his farm for the animal to swim in - but the 1.2 tonne beast turned on him and mauled him to death ...

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Hippos from Central Europe were assumed to have gone extinct around 115,000 years ago when the temperate conditions of the ...