Posted on 02/10/2021 5:50:58 AM PST by Rebelbase
Hippos imported illegally into Colombia for Pablo Escobar’s private zoo have gone feral in the lush tropical countryside and must be culled before their invasive presence starts to wipe out indigenous flora and fauna, scientists have warned.
One of the notorious drug lord’s great extravagances saw him amass a collection of hippos, kangaroos, giraffes, elephants and other exotic animals in his hacienda fortress from where he established the world’s biggest cocaine empire in the 1980s.
When he was hunted down and killed by police in 1993 many of the animals were rounded up or died.
But the hippos were abandoned on the sprawling Hacienda Napoles due to the cost and logistical issues associated with transporting the huge animals and the violence that plagued the area at the time.
Government attempts to control their reproduction have had no real impact on population growth, with the number of hippos increasing in the last eight years from 35 to somewhere between 65 and 80.
A group of scientists is warning that the hippos pose a major threat to the area’s biodiversity and could lead to deadly encounters with humans. They say the hippos must be culled or their numbers could reach around 1,500 by 2035.
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Hippos are no joke.
I mean, yeah, videos of them going #2 are funny, but they kill more Africans than lions do. They can bite a croc in half.
Sounds like illegal alien genocide. Isn’t that speciesist?
Shoot on sight, no season, no limit.
If people are starving there, they can eat Hippos
“Hippos imported illegally into Colombia for Pablo Escobar’s private zoo have gone feral in the lush tropical countryside and must be culled before their invasive presence starts to wipe out indigenous flora and fauna, scientists have warned.”
Wait a minute! So introducing new diverse species reduces diversity?
I wonder what these same “scientists” have to say about hoards of non native invasive people taking over Europe and wiping out the indigenous human species.
Send them to Venezuela and tell them they make great bacon.
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