Cocaine Hippos - How They May Be Helping the Ecosystem by Colin Kowalski
Pablo Escobar - a man who is known for his notorious drug cartel - may actually have brought some good to the world. Well, not exactly him, but nearly 80 hippos descended from the four hippos that he used to own. When those four hippos were released into the wild, they reproduced and created the 80 hippos today know as the "Cocaine Hippos." Upon initial release, these hippos were hypothesized to bring harm to the local ecosystem, due to their invasive nature, but new studies might be revealing the only possible positive aspect of Escobar's legacy.According to Live Science Magazine and other sources, Cocaine Hippos have recently been thriving in the local Columbian Ecosystem. However, they haven't been the only thing thriving, rather, the entire ecosystem is seeing the benefits of these hippos. Initially, they were thought to be an invasive species, being a foreign species brought with no natural predators, and it was hypothesized that they would wreak havoc in Colum...