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Jeez, we had hippos in London like 9 ice ages ago, the Amazon and the Congo were once connected into one mighty river system. Perhaps Snr. Escobar just wanted to reintroduce them. How destructive can a hippo be? Chomping on grass and wallowing / defacating in a river or lake.
Okay deadly encounters with humans I accept, not exactly biodiversity though is it. Great bodyguards come to think about it, surround your fortress with the most deadly mammal responsible for more human deaths than any other from Africa.
It was humans that wiped out the late Pleistocene megafauna
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Hippopotamuses, not hippopotamoses:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/pablo-escobars-hippos-must-be-culled-to-halt-biodiversity-disaster-scientists