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Druglord hippopotami threatening Colombia

I'll copy the whole article since CBS puts annoying loud ads in their links, which I find to be rude.

My key questions are:

1. How did they forget the hippos?
2. Pablo Escobar's estate is a theme park? Whose idea was that?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pablo-e...ow-to-stop-it/

Pablo Escobar's hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn’t know how to stop it


Fishing villages, small boats and children at play dot the landscape along the shallow waterways of Colombia's Magdalena River. But an invasive species left behind by one of the country's most infamous figures is threatening the ecosystem and, possibly, a way of life.

That species? Hippos. The giants, native only to Africa, are now running wild in Colombia, reports CBS News' Manuel Bojorquez.

The story of Colombia's hippos starts in Villa Napoles, the former estate of Pablo Escobar, who in his heyday had four hippos smuggled there for his private zoo.

Escobar's ranch housed hundreds of exotic animals including rhinos, elephants and giraffes. By the 1980s, his cocaine empire made him the wealthiest and most feared drug lord in the world. For Colombia, it was a reign of terror. He's said to be responsible for some 7,000 deaths.

Around the time Escobar met his death in the early 90s, the government relocated most of the animals but not the hippos who were basically allowed to roam free.

"People forgot the hippos," said biologist David Echeverri, who works with CORNARE, the environmental agency in charge of tracking and managing the hippos in the region. He estimates there are about 50 or more of them now.

The area where they roam is a paradise for the animals who have no predators and ample food and water. But they're getting too close to people. It's not uncommon to spot a three-ton hippo walking around town. Locals call them the "village pets," but Echeverri said the "dangerous" and "territorial" species is anything but.

In Africa, hippos cause more human deaths than any other large animal. So far, there are no known attacks in Colombia.

The majority of the hippos still live inside Escobar's former estate, which was turned into a theme park in 2007, but the issue is that they can't keep them contained. Some have been able to get out which is how they are turning up in other areas.

Oberdan Martinez runs a theme park there, where the hippos are a main attraction. According to Martinez, Colombia's the only place you'll see a pack of hippos in the wild outside of Africa. He also said it's more common to see a hippo in that area than a pig.

There's concern the hippos have already started to displace native wildlife, like the manatee, and keep getting too close for comfort.

In the past year, fisherman Pablo Jose Mejia has come across five hippos that ventured outside of the theme park. But he said they're like dogs – if you know how to deal with them, you'll be fine.

But Echeverri fears, with an ever-growing hippo population, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt and killing the animals has proven highly unpopular.

"We can't just kill the hippos and the other solution is relocating hippos, sterilizing hippos," Echeverri said, although he acknowledged that would be an expensive and dangerous process.

With limited funds, it's a solution unlikely to stem the tide on a legacy that just keeps resurfacing.
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Old 02-10-2019, 05:02 PM   #16
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Old 02-10-2019, 05:24 PM   #17
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So, Donger looks at the list of countries that he'll never visit, and adds donkey-****ing Colombia to the list.
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Old 02-10-2019, 06:26 PM   #18
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So, Donger looks at the list of countries that he'll never visit, and adds donkey-****ing Colombia to the list.
From a pure optimization standpoint, it seems like that would decrease the competition for the most attractive hookers.
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Old 02-10-2019, 08:27 PM   #20
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I was curious how hippopotomi became druglords in Columbia.....
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I was curious how hippopotomi became druglords in Columbia.....
Like anybody else, they start out as low-level street enforcers.
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Old 02-10-2019, 09:25 PM   #22
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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.
I can't imagine they'd have any natural predators here so I bet they'd do fine.
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So, Donger looks at the list of countries that he'll never visit, and adds donkey-****ing Colombia to the list.
Rampaging hippos aside, it's actually improved a great deal from the cartel days. I have a cousin who has retired there because he can live comfortably on his pension. He and his wife have actually lived in Medellín for several years now, and seem to really enjoy it. I should add that he is also a bit nuts, but to each their own.

It used to be that Colombia was the dangerous hellhole and Venezuela was nice. The worm has definitely turned in that regard.
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They don't know how to stop it? I'm fairly sure this would work.



They might want to up the caliber a bit, though.

This was exactly my solution, and for enough money I'll volunteer....and they can feed these swamp cows to the starving people in Venezuela...
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https://www.sciencealert.com/what-ar...dliest-animals

The fifteen most dangerous animals to humans:

15. Sharks (6 deaths per year)
14. Wolves (10 deaths per year)
13. Lions (22+ deaths per year)
12. Elephants (500 deaths per year)
11. Hippos (500 deaths per year)
10. Tapeworms (700 deaths per year)
9. Crocodiles (1,000 deaths per year)
8. Ascaris roundworms (4,500 deaths per year)
7. Tsetse flies (10,000 deaths per year)
6. Assassin bugs (12,000 deaths per year)
5. Freshwater snails (20,000+ deaths per year)
4. Dogs (35,000 deaths per year)
3. Snakes (100,000 deaths per year)
2. Other humans (437,000 deaths per year)
1. Mosquitoes (750,000 deaths per year)

Sharks apparently get a bad rap. I'm still not going in the water, though. DAMN YOU SPIELBERG!

I don't exactly trust this list....water buffalo and cattle kill quite a few people each year.
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I don't exactly trust this list....water buffalo and cattle kill quite a few people each year.
Hell, I'd think American buffalo would be higher on the list than sharks. I remember topping a hill in Yellowstone and having to lock up my brakes because of the big stupid bastards was standing right in the middle of the road. Missed it by about a foot. They're thick as flies in certain parts of the Black Hills, too. They are foul-tempered and dangerous. I remember hearing from people who worked in Custer State Park being trapped in their homes because of them.

Had they actually been hunted to extinction, I wouldn't give two shits about it.
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Hell, I'd think American buffalo would be higher on the list than sharks. I remember topping a hill in Yellowstone and having to lock up my brakes because of the big stupid bastards was standing right in the middle of the road. Missed it by about a foot. They're thick as flies in certain parts of the Black Hills, too. They are foul-tempered and dangerous. I remember hearing from people who worked in Custer State Park being trapped in their homes because of them.

Had they actually been hunted to extinction, I wouldn't give two shits about it.
They damn near were. The American government tried to hunt them to extinction to exterminate Native Americans.

I've read estimates that there were once 65 million bison in America. That's insane.
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Rampaging hippos aside, it's actually improved a great deal from the cartel days. I have a cousin who has retired there because he can live comfortably on his pension. He and his wife have actually lived in Medellín for several years now, and seem to really enjoy it. I should add that he is also a bit nuts, but to each their own.

It used to be that Colombia was the dangerous hellhole and Venezuela was nice. The worm has definitely turned in that regard.
Yeah, I think cruise ships stop in Colombia now. Apparently Pablo was the only problem they had. Now it's just a few rogue hippos.
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They damn near were. The American government tried to hunt them to extinction to exterminate Native Americans.

I've read estimates that there were once 65 million bison in America. That's insane.
Yep. You'd need a tank to drive across the plains states.
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