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Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)

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Re: Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)

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This points to the forms that truly effective terrorism will take in future. Why bomb a few places in your target country, when instead you could just plant a few hundred genetically-engineered Tyrannosaurus eggs? Mayhem for years! Way to make your mark Pablo!

It's already been done with agricultural pests.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_California_medfly_attack

Re: Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem (2014)

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Reading this as an Australian, where managing invasive species is a multi-million dollar problem, this is just...extraordinary. > "It's just like this crazy wildlife experiment that we're left with," says San Diego University ecologist Rebecca Lewison. "Gosh! I hope this goes well." You...hope this goes well? How about you shoot them all, while there's still a countable number of them? It's not like there's a conserv…

The difference is that in Australia you don't have whole towns worth of people coming out to protect their cute, floppy animals .. with guns and machetes. So, there's that.
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