Out of his skull!

I spent today at Glasgow University Zoology Department again, for day two of the Freshwater Biological Association's annual meeting. That gave me another opportunity, after last night's spider-related picture, to take a zoologically-related photo in the zoology museum. I spotted this skull yesterday and it took me a few minutes to work out what it was. It is the amazing, betusked, enormous skull of a hippopotamus. Imagine its huge mouth gaping open and it becomes a bit of a nightmare vision! For all their sometimes comedic portrayal in cartoons and adverts (and that BBC1 inter-programme film of swimming hippos), they are big, dangerous animals. If memory serves me right, hippos kill more people than crocodiles in Africa.