Drug lord's hippos make their mark on foreign ecosystem

(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego scientists and their colleagues have published the first scientific assessment of the impact that an invasive hippo population, imported by infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, is having on Colombian aquatic ecosystems. The study revealed that the hippos are changing the area's water quality by importing large amounts of nutrients and organic material from the surrounding landscape.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news