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War on Hippo's
Newsweek ^
| Nov 03, 2023
| Aristos Georgiou
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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: africa; bigfreakintard; colombia; elephants; giraffes; haciendanapoles; hippo; hippos; hippotami; hippotamus; medellin; ostriches; pablo; pabloescobar; puertotriunfo; rhinos; river; zebras
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To: Gay State Conservative
Hippos don’t belong in South AmericaFlorida would be closer and cheaper. After all, Florida seems to be the dumping ground for all the other invasive species other than the rare snow spider.
To: BigFreakinToad
Every year or two a similar article is posted.
Its obviously not a real problem. They could get rid of them in a year by selling licenses to Americans if they wanted to get rid of them.
If.
Accidentally on purpose waiting until they are over-run so they can sell more licenses a couple of years from now or waiting until some alliance of dimwitted effeminate urbanites and Uncle Sugar send them enough money to “stop the environmental holocaust”.
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:42:45 AM PST
by
gnarledmaw
(Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
To: BigFreakinToad
“War on Hippo’s”
Does anyone know how to use an apostrophe properly?
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:46:30 AM PST
by
bwest
To: bwest
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:48:15 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: bwest
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:49:33 AM PST
by
SheepWhisperer
(Get involved with, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
To: HYPOCRACY
Hippos: “From the river to the sea!”
To: BigFreakinToad
The war on America’s women hippos, has begun.
Long overdue!
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:53:33 AM PST
by
foundedonpurpose
(Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
To: BigFreakinToad
FTA: "...the transfer of animals to other countries, and possibly euthanasia." Hmm. Never been there. Will check it out.
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:53:53 AM PST
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: BigFreakinToad
Chris Christie needs to stay out of Colombia.
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:55:22 AM PST
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: BigFreakinToad
Hippos kill more people in Africa than lions. And they can run fast and travel cross country to new rivers,
They can attack folk who swim, fish, bathe, or collect water, as some people do in South American villages without running water.
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:56:56 AM PST
by
LadyDoc
(liberals only love politically correct poor people)
To: Hot Tabasco
Give em a few years, they’ll make their way to the glades like all the other invasive species.
To: Dr. Franklin
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posted on
11/06/2023 11:59:51 AM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: BigFreakinToad
Oh yeah? He will war your ass right back to hell.
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posted on
11/06/2023 12:02:32 PM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: bwest
no. But, rest assured, ‘s isn’t one of the signs of the beast.
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posted on
11/06/2023 12:02:33 PM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: gnarledmaw
That sounds like a good play.
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posted on
11/06/2023 12:04:08 PM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: LadyDoc
I say bus them to sanctuary cities.
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posted on
11/06/2023 12:04:53 PM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: BigFreakinToad
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posted on
11/06/2023 12:18:27 PM PST
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
Hmmm, I see a sequel... Cocaine Bear vs. Cocaine Hippo.
Cocaine bear with just stupid fun.
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posted on
11/06/2023 12:20:11 PM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: EvilCapitalist
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posted on
11/06/2023 12:20:37 PM PST
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
To: bert
In a lot of tribes the girl twin was killed because it was to hard to care for two.
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