Everytime I see that creatures I remember my encounter with one of them at the zoo.
It rotated it’s tail like a ventilator and pooped the soggiest crap imaginable. The wall tiles of the indoor enclosure were a complete mess.The meat edible? Hope it doesn’t go to waste.
It is, and supposedly tastes like pork.
There had been a plan in the early 1900s to introduce them to the Louisiana swamps to be raised for meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Hippo_bill
Two hippopotamuses in their natural habitat, which is not Louisiana
That seems pretty snarky for Wikipedia.
lake cow bacon.
Water horse ham
the leather is incredibly durable.
Follow up question, are there any meats that aren’t edible?
I’ve heard that you shouldn’t eat the livers of predators due to poisonous amounts of vitamin A that can be built up in them, but that’s strictly offal rather than meat.
Depends on your definition of edible I suppose. Puffer fish are lethal poisonous if not prepared properly, probably not the only animal like this, and all high level predators have bio-accumulation which renders their bodies generally unhealthy to eat in large quantities.
I was thinking more along the lines of palatable I suppose. Canada Goose is apparently nasty which is a shame considering how numerous they are nowadays.
This is one of those weird instances of flipped roles. Hippos are horrible for the natural environment in Colombia, but the locals actually love them because they bring in tourist dollars. Enough people want to see the hippos that the locals have set up tour companies around it. So the environmentalists want to kill the animals, and the local businesses are trying to protect the animals.
sounds like they need to join forces and set up hunting businesses.
They could also capture them and put them in an enclosure. That or spay/neuter them and release back as a compromise. It might be too hard to sedated an animal of that size though.
Why must they be killed, surely they can be moved. You’re gonna be moving them anyway dead or alive.
