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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 conservation question here. There's almost no genetic diversity in the herd, and hippos aren't threatened in Africa.

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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.