{"id":235396,"date":"2023-03-31T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235396"},"modified":"2023-04-02T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:52:25","slug":"colombian-hippopotamus-hippos-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/colombian-hippopotamus-hippos-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian hippopotamus: Hippos are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ource<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cHippos are coming<\/strong><strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>published in the <strong>Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>31st March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3: Environment and Bio-diversity Conservation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About Colombian hippopotamus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: In the late 1980s, the founder and leader of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia brought a few hippos as a collection of his exotic animals. After his death in 1993, four of the hippopotamus escaped and have since multiplied.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Colombian government has decided to relocate 70 such hippopotamus \u2013 and 60 are reportedly going to come to India.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: These are called as \u2018cocaine hippos\u2019 as they were brought to the country by a drug lord.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"What_is_Hippopotamus\">What is\u00a0Hippopotamus?<\/span><\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must read: <\/strong><a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; background-color: var(--global--color-background);\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-hippo-is-an-enigma-it-lives-hidden-from-us-yet-it-faces-habitat-loss-now\/\"><strong>Hippopotamus<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>They are also called as river horse.<\/p>\n<p>These are semi-aquatic herbivores, which have often been posited as a \u201cmissing link\u201d between land-based and marine mammals (whales, seals, etc).<\/p>\n<p>They are known to kill creatures as massive as the Nile crocodile and kill more humans than any large carnivore in the African continent.<\/p>\n<h2>What will be the benefit for India if Colombian hippopotamus arrives in India?<\/h2>\n<p>Their arrival to India can serve many a purpose. They will make for a great tourist attraction. Like the cheetahs at Kuno in Madhya Pradesh, the \u201criver horse\u201d could lead to a jump in tourists for whichever state(s) receives them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cHippos are coming\u201d\u00a0published in the Indian Express on\u00a031st March 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3: Environment and Bio-diversity Conservation. Relevance: About Colombian hippopotamus. News: In the late 1980s, the founder and leader of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia brought a few hippos as a collection of his exotic animals.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/colombian-hippopotamus-hippos-are-coming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colombian hippopotamus: Hippos are coming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[11354,216,10500],"class_list":["post-235396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-colombian-hippopotamus","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704855530},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}