Pablo Escobar’s Hippo Herd Is Treating Colombia’s Lakes Like One Big Toilet

Atlas Obscura ^ | FEBRUARY 12, 2020 | JESSICA LEIGH HESTER

[NativeSon]

I have a cunning plan...

Border moat, stocked with hippos!

[equaviator]

No way would hippopotamus taste like chicken. What it does taste like, I have no idea!

[Caipirabob]

This is why we love FR... :D

[KavMan]

How does the U.S. deal with Hippo poop or the waters in Africa? How does the poop get cleaned up?

[Chickensoup]

Who cares?

Not our problem.

[oldvirginian]

Better than sharks with friggin lasers on their heads!
Call the White House quick!

[IronJack]

Oh, I thought it said “hippies.”

There’s no cleaning up after THEM. Look at what they did to Max Yager’s place.

[Red Badger]

What keeps African hippos from ruining the ecology of the rivers and lakes?.......................

[IndispensableDestiny]

‘In the words of author and hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick, “It is my personal opinion that hippo meat is one of the finest of game foods … The taste is mild, less than lamb and more than beef, slightly more marbled than usual venison. It tastes exactly like, well, hippo.”’

[HamiltonJay]

Just shoot them and be done with it. They are an invasive species and they die by the thousands in Africa during droughts. They are
Not Endangered. Seems a simple enough way to Deal with this

[PIF]

Someone will pay to eat them.

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the chinese are preoccupied at moment

[PIF]

Hippos are the deadliest animals on earth. Please avoid them if you’re able.

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if not youll be a statistic ...

[gnarledmaw]

The one time I saw it for sale I didn't have the extra cash to buy it. It was a deep purple and looked like horse to me and do enjoy that. None of the pictures online look like what I saw though. The closest pictures Im seeing to what I saw then looked more similar to what you will find if you search for whale meat. When looking I found that hippos are now said to be related to whales so maybe there is a similarity there. That's supposed to be quite good too.

Maybe the people of Louisiana could revisit this for us?
Hippo Meat Nearly Became An American Food Staple

[equaviator]

Imagine hippo road-kill...Mmmmm, hippo road kill, aughhhhh!