Brady Barr’s outer hippo

Brady Barr is to hippos as Troy Hurtubise is to grizzly bears, more or less. Troy won a 1998 Ig Nobel Prize for for developing, and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears. Brady Barr built and used a hippo suit, so as better to go lightly amongst the hippopotami.

“No one’s ever retried sweat from an un-drugged hippo. I’m going to give it a try,” says Barr in a National Geographic video, which shows him using a hippo costume to try to infiltrate into a group of real hippos. He gets stuck in the mud.

(Thanks to investigator Maureen Suki for bringing this to our attention.)