...must less spend it on assuaging animal rights nutters:
Authorities said they plan to capture and move nearly half of the hippopotamuses in the coming months, with 10 bound for the Ostok Sanctuary in northern Mexico, and 60 destined for an as-yet unnamed facility in India.
“The whole operation should cost around $3.5m,” Ernesto Zazueta, the owner of the Ostok Sanctuary said.
Well, you know what you could do instead, don't you? Upwards of £5k a pop, and the food's better than Africa!
Since the hippos escaped after Escobar’s death, the government has repeatedly failed to tame the booming population who have made the Magdalena River basin their home.In 2009 it tried culling the animals but stopped after a graphic photo caused national outrage.
A sterilization programmed remains in place but the hippos breed faster than local experts can find, catch and castrate them.
There's a lesson here for everyone, isn't there?
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Castrating a Hippo??? I'm not sure even Chuck Norris would be keen on doing that. You'd need to be more than 100% sure the tranquilliser was working before wielding a scalpel. Still, it's a damn good story to tell your grand children!
Hippopotami. I only pedanterise because of being exposed to Flanders and Swann at an early age.
All together now:-
Mud, mud, glorious mud.
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
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Search for the original. Wonderful for the heart.
In the last 5 years the UK has given more than £20m to Colombia just for claimed 'climate projects', i.e. completely wasted and probably all pocketed by the terminally corrupt.
At least spending £3.5m on shifting hippos may have some benefit.
The usual method of castration, is to lift it's tail out of the way, and then use two house bricks to do the job.
But doesn't that hurt, you may ask?
Only if you get your thumbs in the way.
Hope that helps.
"You'd need to be more than 100% sure the tranquilliser was working before wielding a scalpel. "
They don't take tranquilisers well, if I remember my reading of the 'Zoovet' books...
"Search for the original. "
Oh, I loved that one! Flanders and Swann were great!
"At least spending £3.5m on shifting hippos may have some benefit."
It's hard to see why India would want them, though?
"But doesn't that hurt, you may ask?
Only if you get your thumbs in the way."
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