This adorable hippo that was separated from its mother as a calf and brought up by humans loves tea and kisses on the nose. <br /><br />Jessica the hippo is filmed jumping out of the water to greet tourists and guzzle tea on the banks of the Blyde River in Kruger National Park in South Africa.<br /><br />The footage shows sheepish travellers stroking her snout as she enjoys tea from a plastic bottle. <br /><br />Jessica is not like most hippos, according to the filmer. <br /><br />Newsflare member Emotions of Africa wrote that the hippo lost her mother and was alone before being taken in by the owners of a farm. <br /><br />The filmer wrote: "She washed up on the banks of the Blyde River running through the Kruger National Park and along local farms outside the park.<br /><br />"The helpless female calf lost her mother and had no chance of survival on her own. <br /><br />"Today Jessica is a 1,600kg free roaming hippo in the wild that astonishingly still returns to the house of the owners for her bizarre daily serving of tea."<br /><br />The filmer said Jessica developed the strange taste for tea when she was a calf, and even allows people to give her a kiss while she's drinking it.<br /><br />Hippopotamuses are often claimed to be Africa's most dangerous animal.<br /><br />Their sharp teeth and aggressive nature mean it is not uncommon for them to kill humans.
