Pablo Escobar's hippos have invaded Colombia's waterways and need to be culled, study says

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Scientists warn that a rapidly growing population of hippopotamuses that were introduced to Colombia decades ago by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar should be culled to preserve the local ecosystem, according to a study published this month.

Vanessa at Hacienda Nápoles in Doradal, Colombia, in September 2018. Drug cartel leader Pablo Escobar owned Hacienda Nápoles, where he set up a theme park and a private zoo in the early 1980s., that hippos, the"largest invasive animal" in the world, are likely to colonize habitats around the country with serious environmental impact.

Last year, the hippos at Hacienda Nápoles were cause for concern because of how their feces affected the water they resided in,. The animals' excrement fertilized the growth of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, and threatened the water quality. Although authorities have made efforts to sterilize the hippos, the animals' population in Colombia has remained on the rise. Hippos have won approval from locals, who consider them a potential tourist attraction, and they are protected by environmental law.

"This knowledge is essential for guiding public perception to the social and ecological affectations potentially faced by hundreds of thousands of vulnerable rural citizens, in the most important hydrographic basin in Colombia," the study said.

 

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God Bless America and the children who inhabit it with their dreams and faithful hope. We have, I believe, a nonpartisan Destiny as Americans and as refugees from totalitarian regimes.

I know it is too late to say anything substantive about changing the rules in the Drug War, But wouldn’t it be nice if people would stop killing each other and seek advice and care from unbiased physicians who search for the right medication. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🌎🇨🇦

They should just relocate them.

Good luck with THAT. Ever see their teeth? *I* ain’t taking them on.

Hungry hungry hippos.

They better not kill the hippo’s

Hey!!

Escobar LOVED the meat

BUT BUT THE DRUG HIPPOS

Send them to Mar-a-lago with the rest of the animals taking residence there in the next couple of hours!

I think there was something in the Covid relief bill that allocated a few million dollars to this effort. I say it’s money well spent!

The Hippo surfing through rivers Like Escobar of Columbia... The Hippo spreading tentacles Like Narcos in ghost mode...

The hippos were introduced by a drug pin who died apparently to everyone except Colombia—check the president of the republic background— Escobar is very much alive

Why not move them to countries interested in having them,instead of killing the animals

samjunior01 Why? Leave them alone Mother Nature given time will adapt to Hippos in Colombia.. & they will spread thru tropical South America! Mankind has wiped out large mammals in the Americas since their arrival..& Colombians love them!

Those Cocaine Hippos sound worse than the Meth Gators that now populate the South.

*Hippopotami (if you ever studied Latin)

Fuckers. We don’t deserve this planet.

People can continue to love the Democratic Party, But should not elect a president who betray the United States,Because he controlled by other country‘s BGY. ✨Repentance is the road✨ For right For children For United States !🙏🙏

Mainstream media, please stop reporting about Trump, unless he is arrested. We've had more than enough. Let him fade into obscurity and exist only on far right conspiratorial sites.

BUT BUT THE DRUG HIPPOS 😭

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