Joel Kontinen
Hippos are unique if that their poop is full of nutrients that gets the riverbank to flourish. And they poop quite a bit.
In Columbia, "Pablo Escobar imported four hippos from America in 1981, for a private zoo at his hacienda near Medellín, Colombia. After his drug empire collapsed, the hippos escaped and have been breeding in the wild ever since, now numbering 80 individuals or more, Scientific American reported in February."
Hippos are one of the creatures some Bible translators have advocated in place of the Bememoth, in Job 40: 15-21.
Source:
Weisberger, Mindy. 2020. Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' may be helping river ecosystems in Colombia. Live Science. 31 March.
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