The hyena crept up to the carcass, and then barely escaped the hippopotamus it had bitten: video

A wildlife enthusiast traveling through the Ngorongoro Crater (Serengeti Savannah, Tanzania) in mid-autumn last year witnessed a hyena's mistake that nearly cost the hungry predator its life.

The hyena watched for some time the motionless hippopotamus, frozen in a swampy pond. Then the predator quietly crept up on what seemed to her to be the carcass of a hippopotamus and made a control bite on the back of her prey. But when the huge animal suddenly came to life and began to slowly turn 180 degrees, the hyena realized that she had made a mistake and rushed through the swamps to make her way back.

At some point, the hippopotamus almost closed its powerful jaws and did not punish the offender, but at the very last moment the hyena managed to escape and, having got out of the swamp, ran away from the ill-fated place.