Episode
Dual Survival: Hippo Island
Overview
In Botswana's Okavango Delta, Cody and Dave -- equipped only with a dying GPS and waterlogged binoculars -- seek to escape the dangerously territorial and deadly hippos that rule the marshland.
Details
- Series
- Dual Survival
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2011-06-17
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Hippo Island is Episode 10 in Season 2 of Dual Survival. It aired on 2011-06-17. The runtime is 45 min.
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