Hippo: Wild Feast Live

Hippo: Wild Feast Live will document this extraordinary event for seven days. You can watch live online around the clock and tune in daily every eveni...

The hippo is bloated with the gases that build up inside it because of bacteria in the digestive system. Blow flies will already have entered the carc...

Mark has counted 36 vultures on the carcass, these are hooded and white-backed vultures. The vultures are feeding on the soft parts of the hippo's hea...

A mass of vultures is now on the hippo. Crocodiles and hyenas managed to break into the carcass last night by tugging at the front leg. The vultures a...

Though the hippo looks dried out there is still plenty of food inside and the crocodiles have been stretching into the cavity to feed. Many insects a...

Vultures and marabou storks are once again on the carcass which has been decimated by hyenas and crocodiles feeding through the night. Several other b...

There seems to be very little left of the carcass but it is still covered in invertebrates such as hide beetles which feed on the dry tissue. Hooded v...

A new high-tech natural history event, Hippo: The Wild Feast presents the most comprehensive illustration to date of nature's food chain in action. T...