It's the best chase scene we've seen since The French Connection

“Hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal” is one of those endlessly repeated cocktail party trivia bits, but we’ve never seen such a riveting real-world example in this (SFW) video.

Filmed on the Chobe River in Botswana by David Jackson, this clip shows one of the benign-looking semiaquatic beasts pursuing a speedboat with the intensity of a great white shark. Hippos are notoriously territorial, and this one apparently resented the intrusion of a Pangolin Photo Safari speedboat into its home.

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The brief video escalates with the intensity of a scene from Jaws: We see something moving toward the boat, the boat accelerates, and then the hippo bursts out of the water in an appropriately slowed-down reveal.

Now, whenever someone repeats that bit about hippos to you, you can sagely nod and look off into middle distance, your 1,000-yard stare saying more about the things you’ve seen than words ever could.