Would you be more likely to visit Scotland as a tourist if Tourism Scotland released a bunch of hippos in and around Loch Ness?

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Yes, totally. This would be a reason to visit.
24.6%
Neutral. It would not influence my decision.
23.4%
No. This would be a reason to not visit the place.
52%
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I'm now worried a lot of people misread hippos as hippies.

That'll screw with the poll :(

@Pepijn
If it helps, this correction post is how I was introduced to the poll in the first place.

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It does not help.

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@Pepijn now hold on just a minute....
@Pepijn do you know how scary those beasts are
@venite They're super cute in cartoons.
@Pepijn ze kunnen 45 km per uur rennen, zijn territoriaal, en ze bijten

@venite ok ok.. daarom doen we het ook op een eiland en niet op het vasteland!

45km per uur, territoriaal en bijten doen mij trouwens denken aan de buurman van mijn ouders. Een altijd boze hoogbejaarde man met een Canto wagentje.

@Pepijn

Introducing foreign animals could severely disrupt the local ecosystem, which seems already to be under threat (see the decreased number of sightings of the Loch Ness monster in the last few years).

@Pepijn As somebody who visited near Loch Ness today I'd, on balance, having given the matter quite a bit of thought, think I'm possibly tending towards the idea that, all things considered, I'd just about rather that they did fucking not introduce the most dangerous-to-humans animal in Africa here.

@edavies So we write you down as a "maybe"?

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@Pepijn

* most dangerous-to-humans except for humans and mosquitoes.

@Pepijn Hippos kill more humans than any other wild mammal.
@Pepijn I would love to visit Scotland, hippos or no hippos, but hippos in Loch Ness would be weird, and there’s an appeal there.
@Pepijn it’s Loch Ness, so you coul tell people there were hippos and they would see them even if they weren’t there.