Posted on 07/11/2009 4:06:28 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Bounty hunters have killed one of three fugitive hippos who escaped from a zoo founded by the fallen Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.
The other two remain on the run in the north west of the South American country. The one-and-a-half ton male was killed by two hunters near a river in Antioquia province on June 18, but the news was first reported on Friday by Colombian news media.
The three mammals bust loose from the zoo two years ago, surviving on the lush vegetation of the steamy Magdalena valley, far from their native Africa, ever since. Colombian wildlife authorities issued an order to kill the animals after locals complained the trio were damaging crops and livestock.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
“I want a hippopotamus for Christmas...”
No you don’t (WARNING! DISTURBING CONTENT - Male hippo kill baby hippo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmducZAbqRI
Will someone please post a photo of Michelle Obama in this Hippo thread?
I don’t know how to post photos.
Hippos are dangerous and will eat humans on occasion.
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