Re:Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)
by syllogism on Monday January 26, 2015 @11:57PM
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Reading this as an Australian, where managing invasive species is a multi-million dollar problem, this is just...extraordinary.
> "It's just like this crazy wildlife experiment that we're left with," says San Diego University ecologist Rebecca Lewison. "Gosh! I hope this goes well."
You...hope this goes well? How about you shoot them all, while there's still a countable number of them? It's not like there's a conservation question here. There's almost no genetic diversity in the herd, and hippos aren't threatened in Africa.
Re:Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)
by fit2rule on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @05:38AM
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The difference is that in Australia you don't have whole towns worth of people coming out to protect their cute, floppy animals .. with guns and machetes. So, there's that.
Re:Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)
by jessaustin on Monday January 26, 2015 @09:29PM
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This points to the forms that truly effective terrorism will take in future. Why bomb a few places in your target country, when instead you could just plant a few hundred genetically-engineered Tyrannosaurus eggs? Mayhem for years! Way to make your mark Pablo!
Re:Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)
by MorningInfidel on Monday January 26, 2015 @02:31PM
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Thought this would be an interesting thought experiment for engineering the best solution to the problem. I guess since Colombia isn't that rich it would have to be feasible economically, too.
Re:Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)
by discardorama on Monday January 26, 2015 @07:50PM
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FTA: Valderrama doesn't recommend eating the meat, in case it is infected with a transmittable disease - one dead hippo was found to be carrying leptospirosis which can cause meningitis
Re:Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)
by brudgers on Monday January 26, 2015 @08:36PM
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As a former Tampa Bay Mutiney fan, no bacon just piles disappointment upon disappointment. This story would be hippos in World Cup wigs cooler if the Carlos "Still the best player ever to play in the MLS" Valderramma had, in post footballing retirement, become a veterinarian managing Escobar's legacy.
> "It's just like this crazy wildlife experiment that we're left with," says San Diego University ecologist Rebecca Lewison. "Gosh! I hope this goes well."
You...hope this goes well? How about you shoot them all, while there's still a countable number of them? It's not like there's a conservation question here. There's almost no genetic diversity in the herd, and hippos aren't threatened in Africa.
(Also, happy Straya Day)
[1] http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/scary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack