Hungry hungry hippos I guess.
If I had the land and money, I would have a hippo. They seem to be sweet docile creatures.
I know I'm weird.
Posted on 03/12/2023 6:10:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia is proposing transferring at least 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar’s former ranch - descendants of four imported from Africa illegally by the late drug lord in the 1980s – to India and Mexico as part of a plan to control their population.
The hippos, which are territorial and weigh up to 3 tons, have spread far beyond the Hacienda Napoles ranch, located 200 kilometer (124 mile) from Bogota along the Magdalena River. Environmental authorities estimate there are about 130 hippos in the area in Antioquia province and their population could reach 400 in eight years.
Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles — and the hippos — have become a sort of local tourist attraction in the years since the kingpin was killed by police in 1993. When his ranch was abandoned, the hippos survived and reproduced in local rivers and favorable climatic conditions.
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Hungry hungry hippos I guess.
If I had the land and money, I would have a hippo. They seem to be sweet docile creatures.
I know I'm weird.
Oh, hohoho! Damn! You called that one wrong! 2900 people killed per year. Looks can be deceiving.
Why go to the expense when they could just shoot them?
I thought Hippos where the animal which killed the most people per year in Africa. Docile, maybe if they aren’t protecting young, hungry or horny.
Pablo Escobar? I see a movie sequel: Cocaine Hippo.
Maybe we can send some ghetto-potamuses over to India and Mexico too. Ours are rather loud and invasive too
you tube is full of videos of hippos trying to kill people inside different McDonalds. They are very much into hot fries, ice cream and some free nuggets.
Good idea.
Don’t forget Venezuela and Somalia!
Is there such a thing as a hippo ribeye?
Hippos seem to go where the biggest drug money is being made.
Dude hippos are the most dangerous animals out there! You gotta be kidding
I guess I am a sucker for pictures.
“They seem to be sweet docile creatures.”
They kill more people in Africa than Crocodiles.
They are the second most deadly animal: mosquitoes kill more people than hippo do.
True. I stand corrected
I don’t believe any hippo weighs 6,000 lbs
However.....
Long ago in a plains tribe, three young men came of age and were to be married. They were sent out into the world with a bow and arrow and a knife to kill an animal the fur of which was to be used to make their marriage bed
Brave Eagle returned with a wonderful cougar hide that was tanned into a beautiful fur
Charging Bull returned with the hide of a young bear that was tanned into a beautiful fur.
Falling Rocks was not very successful. He returned with the skins of two rabbits and a squirrel. These were not large enough to make a marriage bed. His wise grand mother suggested he take them to the trading post and get a striped blanket.
Alas, the trader would not part with a blanket for such a minor return but offered a dusty hippopotamus hide that though rough was in fact large enough.
A year passed
The squaw of Brave Eagle presented him with a son
The squaw of Charging Bull presented him a beautiful daughter
The squaw of Falling Rocks presented him with twins, a boy and a girl
Theorem:
The Squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the squaws of the other two hides
More like psychotically territorial.
A full grown hippo can literally chop a full grown crocodile in half with one bite if the croc wanders into hippo territory.
In Africa, in most years, hippos kill more human beings than any other African animal. Sometimes, because humans paddle a boat into hippo territory. Most of the time, at night, because a human innocently wanders between a hippo (on land) and the hippo path back to the water. The hippo will sprint full speed at the human and trample him.
Curious fact...
The closest living genetic relatives of hippos on planet Earth are...whales!
ROFL!!!
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