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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
I've read that it was once proposed to introduce hippos to the Louisiana bayou as a way to fight a meat shortage.
Imagine hippos in the swamps all over southeast America..
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I wonder how they'd do. Our swamps and rivers seem to have more stuff to get tangled up in than the little bit that I've seen in Africa.
It makes me think about how size is not a particular advantage any more. 20,000 years ago, big cavemen beat up smaller cavemen, and hippos went wherever they wanted. Today, a big guy is just a bigger target for a bullet, and we can identify invasive hippos but can't seem to control invasive zebra mussels.