The reason Hippos are the most dangerous and most feared is because hippos kill more people in Africa then all the carnivores combined. Hippos are very territorial and will flip your boat and drown you in the water, stomp the crap out of you, or just bite down on you.
Noun. 1. jeopardy-a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; drinking alcohol is a health hazard. endangerment, hazard, peril, risk. danger-a cause of pain or injury or loss; he feared the dangers of traveling by air. health hazard-hazard to the health of those exposed to it.
1 In this sense, a person is said to be placed in jeopardy when he is put to trial in a court of competent jurisdiction on a valid accusatory pleading, before a trier of fact and if the trier of fact be a jury, when the jury has been duly empanelled and sworn. 2  See People v Boyd, 99 Cat. 3  Rptr. 4  553, 22 C.A.3d 714.