BY PROFESSOR JEFF FADIMANN, M.A, Ph.D., Dip. Ed. (British)                                                                                

“If a hippo tips your canoe, don’t fall in. Dive in without touching him. No touch–no bite.” The advice came from a Zambezi River guide who has lived virtually all his adult life near, on, or sometimes in the river. My friend and I listened intently, standing next to our canoe on one bank of the Zambezi.  Technically, we were inside the crocodile feeding zone. A crocodile can be found along every 10 feet of the river, although they actually clump together in families. They can lunge out of the water and snatch someone sitting fourteen feet from the bank before the victim can rise. I scanned the water, unconsciously, holding my paddle as if it were a gun.

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