I’m torn… on the one hand… dangerous invasive species… on the other hand…
Just wait for mom. If you are lucky you are just loosing the leg.
They are super agressive (especially when their young are around) and kill more people every year in Africa then lions or other predators. They also have very sharp teeth.
I would have assumed their teeth were dull… you know because of all those marbles?
This is one of those weird instances of flipped roles. Hippos are horrible for the natural environment in Colombia, but the locals actually love them because they bring in tourist dollars. Enough people want to see the hippos that the locals have set up tour companies around it. So the environmentalists want to kill the animals, and the local businesses are trying to protect the animals.
The meat edible? Hope it doesn’t go to waste.
It is, and supposedly tastes like pork.
There had been a plan in the early 1900s to introduce them to the Louisiana swamps to be raised for meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hippo_bill
Two hippopotamuses in their natural habitat, which is not Louisiana
That seems pretty snarky for Wikipedia.
Follow up question, are there any meats that aren’t edible?
I’ve heard that you shouldn’t eat the livers of predators due to poisonous amounts of vitamin A that can be built up in them, but that’s strictly offal rather than meat.
Depends on your definition of edible I suppose. Puffer fish are lethal poisonous if not prepared properly, probably not the only animal like this, and all high level predators have bio-accumulation which renders their bodies generally unhealthy to eat in large quantities.
I was thinking more along the lines of palatable I suppose. Canada Goose is apparently nasty which is a shame considering how numerous they are nowadays.
Canada geese are still a protected species so there might not be as many as you think. They may just know that they’re safe in our cities and parks and chill there.
Better do it before the full power of exponential growth kicks in.
