It’s all good and the sooner the offshoot thread was formed, the less there is to move.
Appreciate the heads up about the order, mainly for the benefit of others who only stumble across the new thread and hadn’t already read the properly-ordered posts in the original thread.
Why not round up the 120 hippos and send them back to their natural habitat? How many hippos can FedEx ship in one aircraft?
Google tells me that up to 3 horses can go in one air cargo container/crate. I think hippos are fatter than horses, so maybe 2 hippos per crate? How many crates per airplane? That I’m having trouble finding. I assume it varies by plane type, but 777 is the biggest.
I’m assuming that animals can only go in the top half of the plane, where passengers would go in a passenger airplane.
So 2 hippos per crate x N crates per plane / 2 since they can only go in half the plane.
Tranquilizer darts? I mean, that’s a LOT of tranquilizer darts. But catching and transporting hippos is a thing that happens.
I imagine it would be a massive project. Get some veterinary students to help maybe?
I was thinking that the bigger issue might be that if whatever issue caused them to become endangered in the first place still persists… then it might not do much good and merely prolong the inevitable by a generation or three.
Oh; I don’t know why I got it into my head that they were endangered.
I do know that the population in the village I visited in Africa twice had fallen to zero. The chief liked hippopotamus meat, and literally hunted every last one.
But it seems they are plentiful elsewhere. So probably not worth the expense of shipping them all back to Africa. Maybe encourage zoos to take them in? Maybe there are more interested zoos now than 30 years ago?