A shout-out to hip-hop
To put it another way, adverse response to “hooray” Trust us when we say that you do not want to be on the receiving end of a hippo’s ill will. As it so happens, this specific photograph shows a mother hippo being stung by her calf in a manner analogous to the previous example. That’s simply plain disrespectful.
As a consequence of this, she is not precisely in the disposition to be photographed right now. After all, she, too, has something in her mouth at this very moment. Who among us, at this juncture in history, would be interested in taking a picture of themselves?