Kolumbien genehmigt den Einsatz von Euthanasie, um die Ausbreitung der Flusspferde von Pablo Escobar zu stoppen
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-13/colombia-authorizes-the-use-of-euthanasia-to-stop-the-spread-of-pablo-escobars-hippos.html
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Not much else they can do aside from resurrection of a dinosaur to become the apex predator in the area.
self euthanisia?
Sad, but after years (and much danger) I don’t think there is another viable option.
Good. Finally. Yet locals will complain, they still think hippos are just bigger cows
what a shitty headline. How about culling? That word doesn’t mean what the BS author thinks it means
good luck capturing this fuckers lol
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How many are there?
Edit: 160 today, 500 by 2030 and doubling in population every 5 years. Started with 3 females and 1 male in 1981
Wouldn’t this violate the Hippo-cratic oath?
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Those were just regular popotamusses until Pablo showed them how to do coke.
On a somewhat related note, House Resolution 23261 sought to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamuses into the Louisiana bayous to both eat the water hyacinth and be used as meat. Former President Teddy Roosevelt, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Washington Post, and The New York Times supported the bill and called hippopotamus meat “lake cow bacon.”
Sad. But understandable.
I watched a documentary where professionals were brought in to sterilize them, group by group. Truly impossible endeavor. Hippos are deadly. They’re also upsetting the natural environment at a great pace.
I don’t understand how children in Asia are going to help the situation.
Bruh, the fuck? Why do this to me
Finally, legitimate menaces
Put poison in the little white marbles.
Cocaine Bear 2: Cocaine Hippo
Ya take Escobar’s money they confiscated and ship them all back to a river basin in the Congo or something. jk although its probably a big problem for indigenous species where the hippos are right now.
Most random news today
Need to cull
Kinda shocking that such a large mal thrives outside of its native environment.
What’s a hippo burger taste like?
I gotta say, that’s a hell of a title
This is the right thing to do. Hippos are insanely dangerous.
A hippo would feed soo many people. Wonder what it tastes like… hm…
I wonder how the youth in Asia will solve this.
Not so fun fact, the Americas. (And nearly every other continent) once had megafauna on the scale of Africa. But every time homo-Sapiens spread to a new continent, they magically disappeared.
That’s not euthanasia, that’s a culling
Not only do Asian youths have to be top of their class but also deal with 1500kg water beasts in South America? Just let them be kids.
It’s not euthanasia if it’s not to relieve the suffering of the animal. This is just culling, not euthanasia.
Last time they killed some hippos some photos leaked and everyone got all pissy. The fact is an introduced species can wreak havoc on the local ecosystem if left unchecked. This is a massive animal with no natural predators and no dry season to control their population naturally.
Export them to Zoos around the world 🙁 could be a bizarre source of income?
Guys we killed harambee and we broke the timeline. You kill these hippos and we have no idea what we may wright.
What an absolute rabbithole of a headline
Why don’t they send them back to their native countries. They can either be assimilated or hunted by natural predators. What am I missing?
Is blowing their fucking heads off really called euthanasia?
Contrary to popular belief, hippos are very fast and very dangerous they will kill you for looking at them wrongly. They can also run and swim alot faster than you reasonably could.
Hippocrisy
Time to find out what hippo burgers taste like, I guess…