BEVERLY HILLS, Mich. – Paul Templer knew his would-be murderer. He was sort of hard to miss. After all, he was a two-ton hippopotamus.
The Michigan native recounted his amazing tale in the London Guardian’s “Experience” serieslast week.
Considering Templer was swallowed by a hippo and lived to tell about it, other
stories in the series may end up failing in comparison.
At the
time of the swallowing, Templer was a 27-year-old river guide giving tours down
the Zambezi river near Victoria Falls along the African border of Zambia and Zimbabwe
Everything
started when one of Templer’s apprentices got his small kayak – complete with
two worried tourists – hi-centered on the back of a large hippo. Templer said
he paddled furiously back upstream in an attempt to assist the kayak.
That’s
when he was “engulfed into darkness.”
“There was
no transition at all,” Templer said. “No sense of approaching danger. It was as
if I had suddenly gone blind and deaf.”
The hippo
had chomped down on Templer’s left arm and chest. A doctor would later find
over 40 puncture wounds spanning the area. A confused Templer wrestled for his
life.
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