It appears you in all chance don’t want a hippopotamus for Christmas … ‘set off they’ve some pretty dangerous chompers — merely ask the British vacationer who ended up in a single’s mouth, after which the hospital.

Roland Cherry — a 63-year-old Brit — was canoeing in Zambia on part of a 5-week African safari … when he says a hippo charged his boat and latched its tooth spherical him.

Cherry — who spoke with UK-based outlet Sky Information — says his partner Shirly swam away from the animal to safety … nevertheless, Cherry dislocated his shoulder when the hippo hit and couldn’t get away from the temperamental beast.

Straightforward pickings for the hippo … who Roland says dragged him proper all the way down to the underside of the river sooner than inexplicably letting him go.

RC lastly made it to the shore … the place he regarded proper all the way down to see his “badly chewed up” thigh. He couldn’t see the abdomen hurt on the time as a result of life vest he was sporting — so, he didn’t completely perceive how harmful his accidents have been.

Cherry says he’s lucky to be alive … together with one among many surgeons who operated on him acknowledged he’d in no way met anyone who survived a hippo assault sooner than, although they’re further widespread inside the space than many people assume … and, the hippopotamus is the world’s deadliest large land mammal.