are these dead hippos

[Bobsalot]

i dont no what these are

in this high res spot in africa but it is very disturbing

[McMaster_de]

Yep, just click on the National Geographic Layer

[gitamerah]

No, they're alive. They're just soaking themselves in the mud, like hippos usually do. Read the full text at National Geographic. The pilots who took these pictures also thought that these hippos were dead at first... until these began to move slowly through the mud because they got scared of the planes.