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Post by dinosauria101 on May 13, 2019 6:17:45 GMT 5
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Post by sam1 on May 14, 2019 22:44:43 GMT 5
Good topic.
It sounds like they are managing just fine, and I'd expect them to keep on thriving but sadly, people will inevitably interfere and stop it.
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Post by dinosauria101 on May 15, 2019 1:09:21 GMT 5
but sadly, people will inevitably interfere and stop it. How? If anything, that would be a GOOD thing because they're invasive. This is just a thread about how they might do undisturbed |
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Post by sam1 on May 15, 2019 17:11:02 GMT 5
They're invasive because humans(btw BY FAR the most invasive species in history) brought them there.
Humans in their hypocrisy think they have the right to take animals out of their natural habitat yet those animals don't have the right to live freely outside of their natural habitat.
As for the surviving premise itself, I think its evident the Hippos would thrive in the Amazon basin.
It would probably have a disturbing and locally devastating effect to the ecosystems but with time, it would probably balance out somehow.
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Post by dinosauria101 on May 15, 2019 17:16:21 GMT 5
As for the surviving premise itself, I think its evident the Hippos would thrive in the Amazon basin. It would probably have a disturbing and locally devastating effect to the ecosystems but with time, it would probably balance out somehow. I agree with you, they'd be much, MUCH too big for anything. Mountain lions, jaguars, caimans, anacondas, they wouldn't have to worry about any of those. Realistically, I think we can expect a thriving hippo population, with a halfway devastated ecosystem in its wake |
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Post by sam1 on May 16, 2019 2:18:11 GMT 5
Well, it needs to be noted that hippos don't have any noteworthy predators in Africa either.
Only lions occasionally take isolated adults.
So the mechanisms that are keeping the population in check aren't natural predators. The species was once really abundant in Africa, but its habitual window is pretty narrow.
So giving this a bit more thought, I think the extreme water level dynamics of the large part of Amazon basin would not suit the hippos. They need isolated pockets of relatively still water.
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Post by dinosauria101 on May 16, 2019 2:38:39 GMT 5
^They seem to be doing just fine in the place where rivers meander. How might their population do without predators (even if they don't have that many to begin with, as you said?
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Post by dinosauria101 on Jun 12, 2019 15:45:46 GMT 5
sam1 I found this article, if you are interested. Apparently, nobody can figure out what to do with them, and I think, most likely, they'd have set up a stable population when we DO figure something out. Here it is: www.rt.com/news/451141-pablo-escobar-hippo-colombia/ |
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