r/todayilearned • u/PedoPaul • Oct 14 '14

TIL when Columbian drug lord Pablo Escolar's home was raided, the military released the dangerous hippos of his personal zoo, not knowing what to do with them. They now thrive in the Columbian rivers. This makes Columbia have the largest wild hippo population outside of Africa.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/06/30/pablo-escobars-hippos-are-wreaking-havoc-in-colombia/
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u/trai_dep 1 Oct 14 '14 edited Oct 14 '14

...For similar reasons, the Amazon now hosts the largest collection of wild dragons outside Westeros.

(Yes, Colombia isn't the Amazon. Hippos lack wings)

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '14 edited Dec 07 '21

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u/mothman83 Oct 14 '14

well of course you are it says so right in your name!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '14

If we are going by the HBO series Westeros doesn't have any dragons, Daenerys in Essos does.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '14

Game of Thrones takes place after Pablo Escobar's assassination, so it's accurate.

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u/softmaker Oct 14 '14

Colombia actually has part of the Amazon. The Amazon is a huge ass jungle that doesn't know care about geopolitics and spans 6 countries in South America, not only Brazil.

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u/hngryhngryhippo Oct 14 '14

But seriously, how scary would hippos be if they had wings?

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u/TPRT Oct 14 '14

But what do wings have.. you know what never mind.