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AlisonSiewert Mar 4, 2023

Cocaine Bear, meet Cocaine Hippos:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/03/colombia-escobar-hippos/?utm_campaign=wp_evening_edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_evening&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3947212%2F64026df6d8b4d160753cf31e%2F5972c693ade4e21a8483b584%2F13%2F48%2F64026df6d8b4d160753cf31e&wp_cu=3f939090f34483cadff78073996da94d%7C3580308E1E4364E3E0530100007F18B6

Colombia tries a new solution for Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos

The four smuggled in by the drug lord in the 1970s are now more than 130. They’re devouring plant life, crowding out native animals, polluting water and threatening people.

The Washington Post

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AlisonSiewert Feb 27, 2023

@beamer That's such a beautiful campus...Amazing how long it has stood & through how much terror it has remained.

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AlisonSiewert Feb 27, 2023

@tristansnell Why does anyone ever want to go to Florida? It's hot, buggy, full of alligators, & threaded through with feral desantises & crazy racists.

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AlisonSiewert Feb 27, 2023

@jaykuo But it was such a cute idea--like giving Barbie a career...or learning the rules from Big Bird.