Tour guide Paul Templer was swallowed by a hippopotamus in South Africa in 1996. Templer, then 27, said that he went "straight down" the two-ton male hippo's throat, and remembers "a terrible, sulfurous smell, like rotten eggs, and a tremendous pressure against my chest."
The hippo's tusk pierced his chest, and the attack stripped the flesh off his left arm, but Templer lived to tell the tale. In fact, he's made a business of sharing his experience: He....