This Vine, embedded above and online here, is mesmerizing. I saw it posted to Twitter recently.
There’s a slightly longer version, with an alternate — and more frightening, given how close the camera is to the creature’s maw — view on YouTube here.
And then there’s the original video, which includes a bit more footage before the chomping occurs.
It comes from the Nagasaki Bio Park in Japan, according to this this UPI story from April, and its description reads “Learn how hippopotamus eat whole watermelon!”
Indeed.
