Escobar's cocaine hippos are being deported from Colombia. One of the reasons - they shit everywhere (4 photos)
If you poop a lot and actively breed, then there is a risk that you will be expelled from the country.
The history of the appearance of hippos in Colombia is known to all. Who forgot or not in the know, you can read here. If in summary, then in the 80s, drug lord Pablo Escobar imported 4 hippopotamus. The drug lord died safely, some of the hippos were taken by locals zoos, and the rest for 40 years have bred up to 150 pieces.
Since the food supply in the country is excellent, predators for such there is no large prey, then these thick-skinned giants breed in geometric progression. Scientists are sure that if this sexy lawlessness cannot be stopped, then their livestock in 20 years will already be several thousand.
It is difficult to castrate them, to sterilize them too, well, for shooting you can get a hat from animal rights activists. The view is somehow in the same Africa is considered endangered.
Well, as a bonus, they harm the fields, trampling crops, actively crap in the rivers, destroy the ecosystem and terrorize the locals.
Officials puzzled over this problem for a long time, and only in In early March, they finally managed to reach an agreement with India and Mexico. IN Zoos in India agree to accept 60 hippos, Mexico to receive 10 things. Also expressed interest in these prolific beasts zoos in Ecuador and the Philippines.
The government noted that the plan "demanded a huge diplomacy from political, environmental and technical points of view”. So to speak, a hippopotamus with a cart - the country is easier.