(CNN) – However, Pablo Escobar, Colombia’s most known drug addict, died in 1993, following his influence in the country, in various forms. The Hippopotamus traded in Colombia as part of Escobar’s private zoology to its finch, Hacienda Nápoles, was created with such success that there is a great deal of preoccupation with its human impact and human security, as a new study conducted by fellow researchers.
The hippos were extended from their original hog, 260 kilometers east of the town of Medellín, in the department of Antioquia, dispersed by the magistrate of the Magdalena River, while his population continued to grow constantly.
The authors of the study, published in the first edition of the journal Biological Conservation, recommend that hypopotamuses be sacrificed to avoid negative effects for a long time, while other scientists are given a castration program to monitor the population and the number of animals bienestar y apego de algunos lugareños a sus nuevos vecinos.
Asi trajo Pablo Escobar los hippopotamos a Colombia
In the 1980s, Escobar imported a macho hippopotamus and three hammers to unite it in its collection of salvage animals. In his death, other species of exotic animals were killed, but the hippos were caught because they had difficulty catching and transporting them, according to the study.
The hypotheticals will soon be extended by the authorities, but the governing body’s efforts for victims will be followed by a public protest.
In addition, a sterilization campaign was launched, but it was very difficult to slow down the progress of the hippos.
From 2011 to 2019 he castrated four machos and sterilized them with hybrids, but this “does not have an important impact on reproduction”, according to the studio.
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The hippopotamuses pass from 35 to 80 in just one year
Investigators say there are likely to be more than 80 hippos in this year, up from 35 in 2012, and predictions that hippos will continue to be propagated in Colombia are not mediated.
The study also cites studies that demonstrate the negative effects of hypothyroidism on the levels of oxygen in water bodies, which can affect the species and, ultimately, the humans, and plant preoccupations with possible transmission. the hippopotamus and the human.
The hippopotamuses also represent an amenity to the life media and the security of the people in the affected areas, according to the study, then come and give the cultivars and participate in aggressive interactions with the humans.
Investigators cite hypothetical incidents that persecute people, as well as a hippopotamus attack in May 2020 in which a man of 45 years results in severe heredity.
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But even the authors of the study recommending victimicarlos, Enrique Zerda Ordóñez, biologist at the National University of Colombia, create that castration programs on the road follow.
Sacrifice the Escobar Hippopotamus series a “easy option”, said Zerda, to be able to affect the survival of a species that is developed in Africa.
Although hippos do not sterilize it, it is easy to do so, it is possible and necessary to do so, just because its number has increased a lot, according to a press release from the university.
“At the moment, the authorities do not consider that the species is a problem”, says Zerda, “but in the future, when there are 400-500 hippos, we can represent an arrangement for the survival of other species that feed on different areas ».
David Echeverri López, head of forestry and biodiversity at the regional corner agency Cornare, told CNN that the situation is delicate.
“The option of matarlos has always been about the month”, dijo. “Without embarrassment, it is very difficult to imagine that you can succeed at this moment.”
If the hippos are an invasive species capable of changing the local ecosystems, the people of the zone have access to them, said Echeverri. If he turned into a tourist attraction because the people were quite affected, aggregated.
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I like to feed some hypothetical people because they are “practically impossible” to find, rehabilitate or sterilize.
“But there are some other animals that are encased in determined zones, in lakes and places that allow to put in place a birth control plan, assuming that there are adequate resources”, says Echeverri, who works with the ONG Animal Balance which intends to find alternative solutions.