Animal News (Except Bigcats)

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Mmmmm, this put weight to the theory of Valmik Thapar about the origin of the "Indian" lions of Gir. I don't know of any wild cat that allow you to be so close, just captive specimens or semi-tamed ones like the caned lions in South Africa.

The hippos are definitely biased toward humans, as they were feed by them and breed under they view. However, they are not native animals and could cause a great damage to the ecosystem. People may be "happy" with them for the moment, but I can bet that when the first human dead happen, they are going to change they mind immediately.

The "human" solution will be to capture and sterilize them as son as possible, the "easier" form will be to hunt them down and eliminate them from the ecosystem. However, nature has teach us that "introduced" animals, in most of cases, can't be eliminated, check the wild boars and giant snakes in USA, the cats, foxes and dromedaries in Australia and these are just a few examples.

I think that those hippos are going to manage to create a large population in the short time. For good or for bad, introduced species are here to stay.

I can bet that if some millionaire man could buy large land tracks in USA and introduce Amur tigers, with the present prey base (deer, bison and bears), tigers will soon establish a good population (wolves and pumas are definitely NOT agree with this idea!). Reply