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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I took an Amazon cruise that went by Escobar’s old estate but never saw any hippos.
Hippo’s kill hundreds of people in Africa every year. People on this side of the world like them because they’re cute.
I watched an animal show about these hippo’s. They’re breeding in the wild now and taking over a river. They’ve got to go.
Perhaps those Hippos could be dropped in the rivers to battle the 4 legged ones
Hippo mean is supposed to be good. There must be options.
I mean, aren’t people hungry in Venezuela?
Sound like a good movie card for a side B sci-fi drama with C list actors
Thats the rare gapped toothed black Hippo.
That would be a Battle Royal!
Did you know hair weaves can be used to make Numchucks?
maybe hippo ribs was what Fred Flintstone had
The errant apostrophe. My personal irritation.
Maybe that is where the term “when $h!t hits the fan” comes from
arm pit hair too
oh well, the sun will still rise tomorrow
Hippos don’t belong in South America. They have no natural enemies so they’ll breed like rabbits. Yes,I think that they should either be killed or moved to Africa. Of course moving them to Africa would be damn expensive...so death is the only reasonable plan.
According to Peter Capstick hippo filet is some good eating.
Goo goo g’ joob
How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers
In 1910, a failed House bill sought to increase the availability of low-cost meat by importing hippopotamuses that would be killed to make “lake cow bacon”...
With bullets made of platinum
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten 'em.
-Hilaire Belloc, "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts"
While it’s apples and oranges, we have a feral pig problem. Same thing, they breed like crazy. Least Hippos stay close to water, pigs go everywhere, bulldozing along away.
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