> The first step is the sterilization campaign, for which the government has put aside 808 million pesos (US$200,000) this year. Each surgical castration will take a team of eight — including veterinarians, technicians and support staff — between six and eight hours. So far, three sterilizations have been completed, according to David Echevveri, head of biodiversity management, protected areas and ecosystem services at Cornare, the regional environment authority tasked with the campaign. In the coming years, the goal is to ramp up to sterilizing 40 hippos a year.
Leave them.
Why not just cull them all? Serious question, it’s an invasive species, if we could cull every python in the everglades we would do it in a heartbeat
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This “Cocaine Hippo” plot has been basically writing itself for years. Enough, who’s in? Time to get that cocaine hippo money! I know a person in Hollywood, can get a pitch meeting, maybe.
“Bertha has had enough. Her children were taken away, the food is awful here, and the mosquitoes are unbearable. When the humans came with nets and guns, it was time to take a stand. She went full rippopotamus! Her cry for freedom resonated across the delta and soon the ‘handlers’ were face to face with ten tons of wet, toothy anger that would not be stopped!”
Sharks just don’t cut it anymore, do they? Videos of chicks in bikinis petting giant Great Whites kind of kill the whole Jaws vibe. But hippos…looka that mouth hole! You can stick a Smartcar in there and it won’t slow our boy down. What you want, no, what the fear junkie public NEEDS is Cocaine Hippos (copyrite right now)!!
In the immortal words of Robert F. Broussard “Fuck, those things look delicious.”
Can you eat hippos?I feel like this might be a missed opportunity for some amazing bbq.
Hold up…why is there even a hippo population in Colombia?
Oh did the algorithm say it’s time to repost the monthly cocaine-hippos clickbait? Literal decades of this story over and over
They should at least eat them
There’s an area of Namibia, along the Orange River, where hippos hunted to non-existence. The governments should get in contact with each other. The big animals are crucial to tourism for one and a massive headache for the other. Surely they can figure something out.
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Okay, hear me out…
Cocaine Bear 2: Electric Hippoloo
Seems like overkill. Are they also having their heads placed on pikes as a warning to the others?
I’m glad they are controlling them before the population grows any larger. These animals do a lot of damage to freshwater habitats. Also you can’t eat animals that have been euthanized due to the drugs used to kill them. They aren’t being hunted, they’re being put down. Though probably more expensive, seems like people are fond of them and more in favor of sterilization.
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> …sterilized, exported and euthanized.
Each one? In that order? Seems redundant…
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> The first step is the sterilization campaign, for which the government has put aside 808 million pesos (US$200,000) this year. Each surgical castration will take a team of eight — including veterinarians, technicians and support staff — between six and eight hours. So far, three sterilizations have been completed, according to David Echevveri, head of biodiversity management, protected areas and ecosystem services at Cornare, the regional environment authority tasked with the campaign. In the coming years, the goal is to ramp up to sterilizing 40 hippos a year.
Leave them.
Why not just cull them all? Serious question, it’s an invasive species, if we could cull every python in the everglades we would do it in a heartbeat
Username checking in.
This “Cocaine Hippo” plot has been basically writing itself for years. Enough, who’s in? Time to get that cocaine hippo money! I know a person in Hollywood, can get a pitch meeting, maybe.
“Bertha has had enough. Her children were taken away, the food is awful here, and the mosquitoes are unbearable. When the humans came with nets and guns, it was time to take a stand. She went full rippopotamus! Her cry for freedom resonated across the delta and soon the ‘handlers’ were face to face with ten tons of wet, toothy anger that would not be stopped!”
Sharks just don’t cut it anymore, do they? Videos of chicks in bikinis petting giant Great Whites kind of kill the whole Jaws vibe. But hippos…looka that mouth hole! You can stick a Smartcar in there and it won’t slow our boy down. What you want, no, what the fear junkie public NEEDS is Cocaine Hippos (copyrite right now)!!
In the immortal words of Robert F. Broussard “Fuck, those things look delicious.”
Can you eat hippos?I feel like this might be a missed opportunity for some amazing bbq.
Hold up…why is there even a hippo population in Colombia?
Oh did the algorithm say it’s time to repost the monthly cocaine-hippos clickbait? Literal decades of this story over and over
They should at least eat them
There’s an area of Namibia, along the Orange River, where hippos hunted to non-existence. The governments should get in contact with each other. The big animals are crucial to tourism for one and a massive headache for the other. Surely they can figure something out.
😰
Okay, hear me out…
Cocaine Bear 2: Electric Hippoloo
Seems like overkill. Are they also having their heads placed on pikes as a warning to the others?
I’m glad they are controlling them before the population grows any larger. These animals do a lot of damage to freshwater habitats. Also you can’t eat animals that have been euthanized due to the drugs used to kill them. They aren’t being hunted, they’re being put down. Though probably more expensive, seems like people are fond of them and more in favor of sterilization.
I feel like that should be an “or” not “and.”