Posted on 11/06/2023 10:42:58 AM PST by BigFreakinToad
The Colombian government has announced a raft of measures to control its growing population of invasive hippos—descendants of animals introduced to the country by the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. Hippos are native to Africa, but in the 1980s, Escobar smuggled four of the animals into Colombia, keeping them at his luxurious country estate, Hacienda Nápoles, in the municipality of Puerto Triunfo—located east of Medellin—which featured a private zoo. As well as the hippos, the zoo housed numerous exotic creatures, including elephants, ostriches, rhinos, giraffes and zebras. Following the death of Escobar, who was killed by Colombian police during a shootout in 1993, the government seized Hacienda Nápoles and most of the animals were donated to local or international zoos.
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If they’re anything like this one, I’d want them out of the country too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSKQ3ZNQ_O8
Maybe Hippo tastes great.
There’s one in Georgia. It’s called Stacey Abrams.
Looks like a lot of overthinking to me, shoot the animals and have a BBQ. If there is a zoo use the meat for lion food.
This summer: the waters of Amazon will churn with a new twist on terror.
Alligators fear them.
Pirhanas won’t go near them.
...And they are multiplying.
They are...
HIPPOS!
I was getting ready to post about this.
Supposedly it just isn’t good it’s actually one of the superior meats in the world.
Equal or better than the finest cuts of beef.
Don’t be offended, Whoopie.
We’re not talking about the other kind of Hippos.
The ones cussing out the cashier at the Jack-In-The-Box Drive Thru Window, because they can’t get more free ketchup.
They are related to pigs. Probably just as good.
We have a war on RINOs.
The Squaw of the Hippopotamus
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 sum of the squaws of the other two hides
Descended from 4 hippos? They must be badly inbred, like palestinians.
He has a point.
Hilarious!
Ha!! Thats a great name, terrible that it is.
probably why they are so overly aggressive
They should import the hippos to Florida Everglades. I’m sure they could kill the Burmese pythons.
*GROAN* But so funny. Going to steal that.
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