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Previously on "Hippos Can Fly"
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That reminds me, we need to buy the mother in law a birthday present.
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That always makes me giggle when they show a documentary/travel show about Columbia and talk about Pablo Escobar's hippos.Originally posted by woody1 View PostThey were also the only animals that the authorities in Columbia didn't fancy rounding up at Pablo Escobar's private zoo. They subsequently escaped and are now breeding/thriving in the wild.
They wanted to cull them last year but there was a backlash. So they decided to move them - https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...t-colombia-35m
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They were also the only animals that the authorities in Columbia didn't fancy rounding up at Pablo Escobar's private zoo. They subsequently escaped and are now breeding/thriving in the wild.
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They are the most dangerous mammal in Africa, killing more humans than any other.
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Hippos Can Fly
Though I wouldn't stand close to one to find out
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...n-get-airborne
..And so to researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in North Mymms, Hertfordshire, whose painstaking examination of footage of the creatures revealed that when the hefty herbivores reach top speed they do indeed take off.
Video showed hippos got all four feet off the ground at once up to 15% of the time when thundering along at full pelt, often to chase off hippo rivals.
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