Hippo Spotted roaming in Estate

Meria

Elder Lister
Residents of Githanji Estate, Kenol (Murang'a) are living in fear of attacks by a hippopotamus that is on the loose in the estate. This morning it was sighted within the estate at 9.00am.

Efforts to get assistance from KWS has not been forthcoming.
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Fried hippo pork na sembeste
Hippos are not porcines/pigs.

Evolutionary relationships among hippo and Cetacea (whales, dolphins).[11]

Until 1909, naturalists grouped hippos with pigs, based on molar patterns. Several lines of evidence, first from blood proteins, then from molecular systematics[12] and DNA [13][14] and the fossil record, show that their closest living relatives are cetaceanswhales, dolphins and porpoises.[15] The common ancestor of hippos and whales branched off from Ruminantia and the rest of the even-toed ungulates; the cetacean and hippo lineages split soon afterwards.[13][16]
 
Hippos are not porcines/pigs.

Evolutionary relationships among hippo and Cetacea (whales, dolphins).[11]

Until 1909, naturalists grouped hippos with pigs, based on molar patterns. Several lines of evidence, first from blood proteins, then from molecular systematics[12] and DNA [13][14] and the fossil record, show that their closest living relatives are cetaceanswhales, dolphins and porpoises.[15] The common ancestor of hippos and whales branched off from Ruminantia and the rest of the even-toed ungulates; the cetacean and hippo lineages split soon afterwards.[13][16]
are you saying a hippo is a fish
 
Sometimes we have to ask ourselves why even befor we ask how it can be done.
Hippos are very aggressive, they kill more people in africa than even lions, it seems reasonable to reduce their aggression by castrating them (males) just as it works in bulls and dogs, efforts in the past have yielded some good results in reducing aggression even to the point of castrated males being bullied by females, the only problem is that the castration is very difficult.
you learn a lot of stuff on the internet.
 
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