ecology
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Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos Are Filling Ecosystem Roles In Colombia That Have Been Vacant For Thousands Of Years
Generally speaking, scientists are not down with Pablo Escobar’s hippos.
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Pablo Escobar’s Horny Hippos Won’t Stop Shitting All Over Columbia
When the Colombian National Police killed cocaine kingpin and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar in 1993, they seized his enormous estate, including his sculpture garden, car collection, small airports, and personal zoo. They shipped most of the zoo animals off to other zoos, but they left dude’s four hippos to fend for themselves.
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Australia’s Threatened Bats Need Protection From A Silent Killer: White-Nose Syndrome
We already know how deadly this summer’s fires have been for mammals, birds, and reptiles across Australia. But beyond this bushfire season, many of those same species ” including our bats, which make up around a quarter of all Australian mammal species ” are facing another devastating threat to their survival.
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Scientists Found A Secret Breeding Site Of One Of The World’s Most Endangered Reptiles
News on endangered species is often not good. It comes with the territory. But every now and then there are success stories of species starting to crawl back from the brink. New findings raise cautious hopes for one of the world’s rarest and most critically endangered reptiles.