A lone hippo escaped from a circus in central Texas around this time. The beast took up residence in local creeks and it took weeks to capture it. The local folk were so impressed by the tenacity and ferocity of the hippopotamus they adopted the name and image for their local sports team: The Hutto Hippos.
Invasive species are also a youtube problem, one channel can grow into two and then they multiply like hippos popping up in places they never were before destroying native youtube channels and choking the suggestion stream with more and more Simon Whistler, the water hyacinth of youtube!
😂😂 this actually isn't that far from the truth. Love Simon's videos, but gotta be careful when on a yt binge. I watch one of his videos and my recommended becomes pure Simon Whistler.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I'm subscribed to a lot of his channels and was just suggested this one. I thought "holy shit, is this his 30th channel?" Lol. I love Simon....and he never runs out of content. Literally anything you are in the mood to hear.... he has a channel for it.
When I was in Norway a few years back, the food gave me loud explosive diarrhea. The worst part was I had the window open and a huge Bull Elephant Seal heard me. It then came crashing through the wall, thinking that I was trying to pick a fight. {0.o} 😆😂🤣
In the mid 90s, I went to a restaurant in Santon (near Johannesburg) called "The Train" that served meat culled from the Krugger National Park. Among the entrees was hippo, and it tasted fine, but was somewhat fatty, as you might expect. What I DIDN'T expect was that giraffe would taste SO DAMNED GOOD. I would certainly never advocate the farming of endangered species, but WOW - sweet, succulent... just awesome. Mopane worms, on the other hand, tasted like broiled rubber bands.
Farming rhinos for their horns would likely save the species and convince people liking in the area to actually care for them. You can harvest multiple horn tips from a single rhino without harming the animal. Money made from the rhino horns could then be invested into conservation efforts.
Giraffe does taste wonderful. You can Google the fact that we killed a giraffe at Copenhagen Zoo. We told the media it was due to genetics but really we just wanted to eat it. We tried to cover it up a bit by allowing the public to watch his butcher it but it really just brought more attention to the plan. We had to feed some of it to the lions to throw them off. We stored it in the large freezers at work and just took it home one steak at a time. What else tastes good there are lots of animals at the zoo. Hey, look they even did an article about it in National Geographic. I also ate a meerkat but it wasn't great. If you want to eat more endangered animals just let me know. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140210-giraffe-copenhagen-science
@@ImWearingPantsNow - Yes, I also have a friend that works at a mortuary in a hospital. Now you never want to use a normal mortuary as the meat starts to go off and they can inject chemicals very early in the process. But I can get you amazingly fresh human meat directly from the hospital. Just let me know. We serve every table.
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I, for one, am really glad he didn't succeed in getting the Nile murderhorse into our waterways! Hippos are terrifying things. Well meant solution to a problem, but a less-lethal meat source would be way better..
What you mean. Be a form population control on the dumb. Think bout it. Smart hunters will be experienced plus better adapted for it while amateur who are poaching well let's say they deserve it. And heck with America armorment be no point in trying say we in danger. The south all have guns and hell maybe a cannon or two laying around. They never did fully rebuild the south. Only Richmond and a few other towns
"The hippopotamus is one of Africa’s most loved and popular animals, along with the giraffe, elephant, zebra, and lion. But did you know that they are, in fact, well-known as the Most Dangerous Animal in Africa?" While learning this I was offered a video of a man being swallowed whole by a hippo but I chose to keep my lunch in my stomach instead, hippo farming is only slightly smarter than polar bear ranching, it takes a special breed of suicidal maniac.
The thing with polar bear ranching, however, is that you KNOW they want to kill you. There has been plenty of accidents with hippos in zoos that seemed completely tame and even loving towards their care takers... until they one day woke up and chose violence. So of the two options... I'm not entirely sure rearing hippos is the smarter one..
@@andersjjensen there are quite a few happy stories of people nursing crocs back to health and then living in the same place with no incidents, i have only heard of one time an abandoned baby hippo was raised by humans alone and when it was grown up it suddenly chose it doesn't like the caretakers anymore and killed them
So was the Auroch and we tamed that. Also, you could just make them smaller to avoid the issue as then they would be too afraid of humans and our dogs to act out.
How about the Nutria fur farms here in America in the late 19th & early 20th century? "Let's bring a highly invasive, giant swamp rat to America & try to convince ladies to wear its fur." Who thought this was a good idea?
Apparently something similar happened in South Korea, with nutria escaping and going feral and multiplying. Farmers discovered that the idea of eating exotic "health food" nutria meat just didn't catch on with the public, so they gave up.
@@SY-ok2dq LOL Mink aren't native where I'm from, so the first one I ever saw was one night, walking my dog, a pair of escaped Mink were beelining it for the river. I had to Google them to figure out WTF I'd just seen (they're awkward AF on land!). Dog wasn't thrilled about them waltzing through her territory like that either!
@@wilfdarr There's several living in the riverbanks near me. They tend to rapidly accelerate erosion by burrowing into riverbanks that are.already near collapse.
6:02 oh boy, trying to eliminate one invasive species with another - what could possibly go wrong? I suppose at least hippos are a bit easier to eliminate if they get out of hand than plants and all their little seedlings.
Geese are excellent guard animals, like llamas and donkeys. You put up with the attitude because they bring certain benefits, but only to a point: most farms only have just enough of the above to guard their herds/flocks or to maintain the next generation, no more than absolutely necessary at any rate.
The oryx were brought into New Mexico from Africa for exhibit at the Albuquerque Zoo. Later their offspring were taken to White Sands Missile Range in southern NM for exotic game hunting for the locals. They reproduced rapidly because they mate all year round and thrived to the point they became pests for ranchers. I think hippos would do serious damage to the ecosystem in the south, however I would like to try the meat.
I wonder if they would do as much damage as feral hogs, as they seem more water dependent? Like a choice of being blown up with dynamite or black powder, maybe.
Yeah but you’re gonna get some crazy selective breeding effects. Ever look at what chickens and cows looked like 100 years ago? They’re hardline the same animals
Hippos need to go extinct. I'm a Captain Planet baby saying that. Hippos are the most murderous, nasty, aggressive vertebrates in the world. They kill more people than any other animal does, and they don't even eat them. They're also useless. They crap up rivers, hoover up grass the better animals need, and don't provide the environment with anything. We should eat them all and not feel bad about it. Oh and the males kill their own babies routinely.
I can appreciate what you are getting at, but are a hundred or even a thousand domesticated, bred-for-stupidity individuals worth even one truly wild one?
That's probably a big part of why the DEA and the Colombian army just said "Screw it, it's not MY problem" when it came to Escobar's pets. The weapons that are perfectly adequate for assassinating drug kingpins, not so great against something ten times the mass and even more murdery. You have to go to some effort to piss off an elephant or rhino, and the big cats don't eat people unless there's extenuating circumstances (normally we're not worth the effort when there's a herd of zebra or wildebeest around, but if the lion has a toothache and can't take down its normal prey ...) Hippos, on the other hand, just hate every other living thing, they'll flip your boat and literally bite you in half (well, bite off the top third, at least) just for having the AUDACITY to float down their section of the river.
Hippo is meat is delicious. I would equate it to lamb. I've eaten it many times in Zimbabwe and enjoy it greatly. It is a red meat, like most animals not a white meat like pork or feline.
The reasons why people eat or don't eat various animals, and to what extent their meat is valued, is such a rich topic that a whole book could probably be written on it, and be fascinating from cover to cover. But here's a neat little factoid I learned when I won a storage unit at auction and one of the content items was a box of American restaurant menus collected from the 1940's-1970's, and seeing they could have some value on Ebay I began researching them one-by-one. The most memorable was for a mom-n-pop restaurant in Memphis, so old that a whole T-bone steak dinner was 4 dollars and some-odd cents, and even the most expensive meal, the lobster dinner, was just $5-something. When I researched the restaurant's history, it turned out to be one of first in the South to even offer lobster, and it took A WHILE to catch on. The reason was, people saw lobsters as simply giant crayfish, which they basically are, and not only are crayfish abundant in the south; back then crayfish was generally considered 'poor people food', so why the hell would you pay more than T-bone steak money for a 1-lb crayfish?! You might argue that lobster tastes better than crayfish and requires less work to open one lobster tail than a dozen or more crayfish tails on a plate, but really the reason southerners finally got on board with the lobster luxury food bandwagon was purely media influence. Not until rich people could be viewed on screen dining on lobster could a southerner feel dignified eating lobster publicly.
LOL YES! I had a conversation with a captain I was flying with who was a Newfi, he said that all the rich kids would bring steak to school and all the poor kids would eat lobster. I'm from Alberta so all the poor kids brought steak and all the rich kids brought lobster!
@@wilfdarr Ha that's funny, but I'm American (raised in Iowa in the Midwest, then lived more than half my life in the deep South), and I've never heard of children bringing EITHER steak or lobster for school lunch. Just sandwiches, apples, that sort of thing.
I’m just imaging an alternate US with a feral hippo problem. Lmao would actually have a fair excuse for owning magnum sniper rifles, automatic shotguns, and grenade launchers. Edit: just saw the most ‘Murica! comment about hippos being the main spectacle of the rodeo shows.
Actually, Simon, as a proper pedant, I can inform you that, as the word 'hippopotamus' is Greek in origin, the proper plural is 'hippopotamoi'. Even if 'octopus' is also of Greek origin, the same does not go for it; the proper plural for 'octopus' is 'octopodes'.
9 minutes in, and I still haven't gotten my Hippos in the bayou story I've been waiting for. Shame. I wanted a story of a farmer trying to herd this hyper-aggressive animal. Remember, the H in hippo stands for Homicide.
Simon should cover the father-son gourmand duo William and Francis Buckland; the duo who quite literally tasted one of every animal they could acquire.
I grew up in Montana and I remember when they tried to get everyone to raise emo. Red meat, lean, very healthy tastes great ,hardy easily survive winter and summer, cheap to feed and raise, almost no methane production. Missed opportunity
They do it now with ostrich. Same meat, but bigger quantity. Super healthy birds, can be left alone in a big field. There's loads of ostrich farms in Germany, Lithuania and so on. I used to get the scraps to make cat food. And ate the eggs myself.
Can I suggest you do a video on another good idea gone bad, the introduction of the Nutria. Brought to U.S. swamplands from South America as a substitute for beaver to make beaver hats, the nutria have escaped and wrecked havoc on American wildlands and wildlife. We have them here in Austin, Texas on the Colorado River in Towne Lake, now Lady Bird Lake. There is also the introduction of the Kudzu vine, an invasive species that has done more damage than possibly anything ever introduced to North American except maybe homo sapiens europeansus.
I love the big sky out of the box thinking from the late-1800’s/early-1900’s. Such a terribly misguided idea; but also inspired. Giraffes on the other hand…..they have to be better than eating insects.
Alive or in general? Since xplrd was declared dead I think we're back to twelve 1 TIFO 2 Top Tenz 3 Highlight History 4 Biographics 5 Geographics 6 Warographics 7 Megaprojects 8 Side projects 9 Brain Blaze 10 Causal Criminalist 11 into the shadows 12 decoding the unknown I think those are all that are officially alive Dead : * Personal Simon channel (all but one video were deleted it was a personal vlog of 2016) *The Simon whistler show (hope the second guy started his animal channel) *Xplrd (sorely missed recent death) *Brainfood show a podcast with Daven *VisualPoilicsEn the guy who doesn't care for politics got bored and left the channel
@@zoehicks880 really? Well now you know 😂lots to catch up on depending what you like. I'm subbed to all of them but ignore Warographics I don't like war
Dragging an incredibly violent and undomesticated animal to another continent in the hopes that you can sell its meat when you have absolutely no clue if anyone would be interested in eating it *and* assuming that it's going to happily eat the water hyacinth when it completely ignores it in Africa and eats grass instead is absolutely hilariously stupid.
@@Automedon2 never seen a more silly comment, "migrated" u mean shipped or extended their habbitat over millions of years? how does a aquatic plant without predators should be controlled in a new locations? if it isnt controlled how do u feel about 0 animals and plants on the river? u can check australia invasion of rabbits in australia aswell. bottom species in the food chain cannot ever go to ambients where they arent controled as they will grow faster, more strong and choke endemic species just bc 2 plants side by side 1 is getting eaten the other one is not and eventually due to competicion and getting eaten the endemic plant will go extint. ecossistems have perfect ballences if the plant extended its reach by its own would mean predators would be able to follow the path aswell and control it, with shipping u could cross the world over and over in 1 day with only the plant but the predator will certainly not follow them naturally. its very new invention bc humans crossing continents with boats, or aircraft is equally new, seems logic to me, the migrations ur talking about take many more years tham the entire human existance and occor mostly with large size catastrophes.
@@Automedon2 holly fuck u are saying that plants travel continents via birds? Let me ask u how long does the plant exist and the bird exist and the migratory circuit exist? Yhea i also think so. Invasive species like sheep and cattle don't usually roam around even if they do their pop is always controlled, nobody thinks earth won't keep evolving but the way it's evolution isn't evolving is just extermination of species new plants won't emerge if their pop is decimated in 20 years. About the rabbits yeah dingo sees meat dingo strikes dingo kills. Funny how u think dingos 1° immediately sees a rabbit as food 2° manages to outrun a rabbit since they have 0 strategies to a new specie's. The plants evolve defences at the animals too but against rabbits they are just in a full plate served bc they never have faced similar creature.
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, but a 20 lbs. turkey will have to do. No room in the refrigerator for the big lug. Besides where am I going to find four paper booties to go on those big roaster legs?
Wait...this was supposed to take place in Louisiana?! oh heck no, we got enough trouble with nutria eating the local muskrat population out of house and home
Yes, attempting to tame and farm the African Murder Waterhorse. For its meat. When it's mostly fat, which is part of why it has basically no predators... getting through all the fat to do any real DAMAGE is near impossible without elephant-sized tusks. A brilliant idea. Totally wouldn't have backfired at all. What's next, bear farming?
As pointed out already, sadly, bears ARE farmed - for their bile though, not meat. However, those are Asiatic bears, which are relatively small. They're not ferocious huge grizzly bears. That said, back in the old days of white settlers expanding across America, the bears of North America were hunted and eaten by some of those settlers. Bear meat is mentioned in the Little House on the Prairie books (can't remember which species though).The Ingalls ate the meat, and used the thick furry bearskins as winter rugs and blankets.
@@SY-ok2dq in Little House in the Big Woods, the author mentions that Pa (Charles Ingalls) uses bear grease to slick his hair back during his courtship with Ma, who had a waist so small Pa could encircle it with his fingers. Quite the beauty ideals.
Imagine going fishing just to get killed by last nights supper lol However i can see an alternate, much more deadly universe where instead of Cow boys we had Hippo boys!
When I was really young, there was a hippo at a local dairy in southern California. It was in a little enclosure with a bit of water to lounge in, and the dairy had "Sam the Hippo" as a mascot on their cartons. Never heard an explanation as to why a dairy would even have a hippo, much less as a mascot (the other big dairy line in the area had "Bessie" the cow), but I wonder now if it was there as a left-over from this scheme.
Fun fact, someone recently started a petition to feed the water hyacinths to manatees, which are starving because of polluted coastal waters. Win/win. Actually that isn't such a fun fact, now I've put it like that.
I wonder if we feed it to them, they’ll garner a taste for it, and then they’ll begin feeding on the plants. The plants are kept in check, and the manatees get a new source of food.
If anyone has never tried eating hippo - let me assure you that it's delicious meat & surprisingly lean meat. I am from Zimbabwe & whilst we predominantly eat beef, chicken, pork & sheep, I have hunted hippo & made delicious hippo burgers, sausages & steaks - it was Frederick Courtney Selous' favourite meat so that must stand for something!
2 things. First what does Hippopotamus taste like. Second I want a hippopotamus for Christmas Only a hippopotamus will do I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy I want a hippopotamus for Christmas I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you? He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue Just bring him through the front door That's the easy thing to do I can see me now on Christmas morning Creeping down the stairs Oh, what joy and what surprise When I open up my eyes To see my hippo hero standing there I want a hippopotamus for Christmas Only a hippopotamus will do No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses I only like hippopotamuseses And hippopotamuses like me too I want a hippopotamus for Christmas A hippopotamus is all I want Mom says the hippo would eat me up But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian I want a hippopotamus for Christmas The kind I saw this summer at the zoo There's lots of room for him in our two car garage I'd feed him there and wash him there And give him his massage I can see me now on Christmas morning Creeping down the stairs Oh, what joy and what surprise When I open up my eyes To see my hippo hero standing there I want a hippopotamus for Christmas Only a hippopotamus will do No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses I only like hippopotamuses And hippopotamuses like me too
I can just imagine the Colombian faunae reacting to the feral hippos. Crocodiles thought they were some kind of land manatees and got stomped for their error. Real manatees took a look at them and said, "WTF is the matter with those guys? Are they Harold's cousins?" And the fish just wondered why the river was browner than usual.
hippos should be much more easy to control, they dont breed as much, they are easier to spot, they live closer to water ways in exchange they are indeed much more destructive but a shot on the head as the same effect on both :D
@@reusablestinger3164 but 5.56 (a popular boar hunting caliber due to the availability of both 5.56 ammo and 30 round mags for it because boars commonly roam in packs of dozens), can't down a hippo as far as I'm aware. You think gun control now is a hellscape of "ban whatever the poor people use in X action movie" wait till gun control (AKA only police get guns) advocates find out about 308 or even higher caliber rifles that hold more than 5 rounds.
@@steel8231 tf does weapon control and wtf has to do with the differences between hippo and boar? Further more I'm European I live well without a mental Ill person shot some people at your local school due to easy access to guns. With pos and negs I don't see a reason why the general population of my country need easy access to guns.
Now, I'm very curious as to how hippopotamus meat tastes. I can imagine walking into McDonald's for a double cheese-hippo burger. I wonder if I can order it from Amazon?
American history is full of horror like any nation but also like any nation it's got alot of bat shit insane, absurd and down right funny history too. The camel thing I always wondered about especially after finding out that the bottom half of the US and Mexico had native camels that went extinct!
@@TheQueenOfSheba Obviously the problem lies with eating everything *from the wild*. Before an animal can be considered edible it needs to be free of cross-compatible pathogens. But once the pathogen profile is known any animal that is better adapted to turning scrublands into meat than what we currently have would be a boon if they also happen to taste good. Personally I like ostrich a lot, but it kinda went out of fashion locally. Which is a shame, as they convert grass to meat at a better rate than cows.
Why is Peter on the wrong side of the desk? Wait, which of Simons many channels am I watching??? Sounds like a BrainBlaze topic but delivered as a "Today I Found Out"... mind blown.
This is the first time in my entire life that I've seen someone else use my favorite word "pulchritudinous" and you absolutely butchered the pronounciation. It means lovely or beautiful btw
The problem of the Colombian hippos is easy to solve. There are only a hundred of then, just declare open season on them until they are all dead. Plenty of hunters will jump at the opportunity for a trophy they probably could never get otherwise.
I think this was tried, but some misguided people blocked it because protecting one horrifically invasive and dangerous group animals is apparently more important than an entire ecosystem. I love animals but I'm 100% with culling invasive or out of control populations for the good of an ecosystem.
Given the number of people already killed by hippos annually, I'm so glad this was not a successful endeavor. Humanity, in all it's stupidity, never ceases to baffle me.
There are some men in Congress who have no idea how female anatomy works, so there you go. And hippopotamus is just another name for “murder cow”. Yes, we have some really stupid people here.
What a fantastic video. Great job, perfect narration, writing, and editing of material. Learned a good bit about something I had no idea was ever even a thing.
We don’t have hippos. But we do have other exotic ungulates like gemsbok, nilgai, axis deer, and auodad sheep running around the southwest, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a bunch more exotic ungulates on private hunting ranches, like kudu, eland, wildebeest, zebra, bongo, waterbuck, lechwe, giraffe, and many more.
Why did it never occur to these people that there already was a *domesticated* water buffalo, whose husbandry is well known in some parts of the world (South and Southeast Asia, though it is supposedly the basis of real mozzarella cheese in Italy, so there also) and which is likely far less violent (domestication favors "sociability" though all bovines are large enough to be somewhat dangerous if mishandled)?
Imagine living in the swamp and having to deal with hippos attacking your airboat docks. Seems like a bad idea to let them roam like that. That said, I now have an overwhelming desire to know what hippo meat tastes like. What, if any, are the tender cuts? Would it be pricey like beef, or cheap like pork?
Water hyacinth can be a valuable resource harvested with drone boats that use a chain conveyer belt in the water to bring the plants aboard grind them screw press the water out and then store in hold fill up and go to base for unloading you could use it for animal feed biofuel farm soil fertilizer and so on.
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Well, I'd try hippo steak. I don't know if I'd keep eating it. Also, big animals are generally less enviornmentally friendly to farm for consumption than smaller animals...
Happened across a book at a local educational institution on agricultural statistics for war production. It claims chicken as the leader in protein production during those times, and it was was by a staggering margin. Yet you never here anything about the issue of chicken k-rations, was it all consumed as fresh poultry or was it all kept for the home front? I can't remember what the full story was but it was worth the time that I would have otherwise wasted. Cheers!
A lone hippo escaped from a circus in central Texas around this time. The beast took up residence in local creeks and it took weeks to capture it. The local folk were so impressed by the tenacity and ferocity of the hippopotamus they adopted the name and image for their local sports team: The Hutto Hippos.
I went to high school in Georgetown and I thought the name "Hutto Hippo's" was to describe the girls that went there 🤣🤣🤣
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Actually the Hutto hippo escaped from a train wreck. No biggie but they had to kill the thing, the Texas Rangers were terrified of it.
Simon redo the video with this story!!!!!
There's an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies where Granny mistakes a hippo for very large hog. She even painted butcher's cut markings on it.
I'm so glad they didn't stick with original title that was on the Pilot episode, which was "The Hillbillies of Beverly Hills". {0.o} 😆😂🤣
According to research into how hippo meat tastes, most describe it similar to pork. So in a way Granny was right.
That's a lot of fat-back.
You would need a lot of collared greens.
Wonder if it is as good as 2nd day pussum?? 😉😉
There was also an episode were Jethro mistakes a kangaroo for a big rabbit and granny has a giant pot ready to make rabbit stew.
@@djquinn11 .... Don't forget golf eggs.
Not quite in the same vain but...
Invasive species are also a youtube problem, one channel can grow into two and then they multiply like hippos popping up in places they never were before destroying native youtube channels and choking the suggestion stream with more and more Simon Whistler,
the water hyacinth of youtube!
😂😂 this actually isn't that far from the truth. Love Simon's videos, but gotta be careful when on a yt binge. I watch one of his videos and my recommended becomes pure Simon Whistler.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I'm subscribed to a lot of his channels and was just suggested this one. I thought "holy shit, is this his 30th channel?" Lol. I love Simon....and he never runs out of content. Literally anything you are in the mood to hear.... he has a channel for it.
This is true, every couple of months they have a new channel or podcast to plug... 🤔
I've come to accept that in the near future, all entertainment will be Fact-Boy.
allegedly
Imagine a Hippo being caught up in a tornado, then falling out of the sky onto your car.
Similar to a cow doing so…
When I was in Norway a few years back, the food gave me loud explosive diarrhea. The worst part was I had the window open and a huge Bull Elephant Seal heard me. It then came crashing through the wall, thinking that I was trying to pick a fight. {0.o} 😆😂🤣
At least a hippo karen would be screaming on the way down, so you would have SOME warning😆
@@Andreamom001 Or a horse, or a car, or a washing machine. What a stupid comment...
"OH THE HUGE MANATEE!!" {0.o} 😆😂🤣
In the mid 90s, I went to a restaurant in Santon (near Johannesburg) called "The Train" that served meat culled from the Krugger National Park. Among the entrees was hippo, and it tasted fine, but was somewhat fatty, as you might expect. What I DIDN'T expect was that giraffe would taste SO DAMNED GOOD. I would certainly never advocate the farming of endangered species, but WOW - sweet, succulent... just awesome. Mopane worms, on the other hand, tasted like broiled rubber bands.
Farming rhinos for their horns would likely save the species and convince people liking in the area to actually care for them. You can harvest multiple horn tips from a single rhino without harming the animal. Money made from the rhino horns could then be invested into conservation efforts.
Giraffe does taste wonderful. You can Google the fact that we killed a giraffe at Copenhagen Zoo. We told the media it was due to genetics but really we just wanted to eat it. We tried to cover it up a bit by allowing the public to watch his butcher it but it really just brought more attention to the plan. We had to feed some of it to the lions to throw them off. We stored it in the large freezers at work and just took it home one steak at a time. What else tastes good there are lots of animals at the zoo. Hey, look they even did an article about it in National Geographic. I also ate a meerkat but it wasn't great. If you want to eat more endangered animals just let me know.
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140210-giraffe-copenhagen-science
Wow, that brings back memories! I also went to that restaurant in the '90's, but chickened out and ate conventional food.
Human tastes like pork... or so I've heard... 'allegedly'.
@@ImWearingPantsNow - Yes, I also have a friend that works at a mortuary in a hospital. Now you never want to use a normal mortuary as the meat starts to go off and they can inject chemicals very early in the process. But I can get you amazingly fresh human meat directly from the hospital.
Just let me know. We serve every table.
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I, for one, am really glad he didn't succeed in getting the Nile murderhorse into our waterways! Hippos are terrifying things. Well meant solution to a problem, but a less-lethal meat source would be way better..
"Murderhorse" LOL :D
What you mean. Be a form population control on the dumb. Think bout it. Smart hunters will be experienced plus better adapted for it while amateur who are poaching well let's say they deserve it. And heck with America armorment be no point in trying say we in danger. The south all have guns and hell maybe a cannon or two laying around. They never did fully rebuild the south. Only Richmond and a few other towns
Agreed meaning hippo would be a reasonable answer thers a lot of meat there but chances are they would kill the farmers
@@fuckyoutube5584 dude do you know what it takes to bring them down you would need to be hunting with a 50 cal
Something I dont think every hunter has
I wonder how they would impact the alligator population in South Florida?
"The hippopotamus is one of Africa’s most loved and popular animals, along with the giraffe, elephant, zebra, and lion. But did you know that they are, in fact, well-known as the Most Dangerous Animal in Africa?"
While learning this I was offered a video of a man being swallowed whole by a hippo but I chose to keep my lunch in my stomach instead, hippo farming is only slightly smarter than polar bear ranching, it takes a special breed of suicidal maniac.
The thing with polar bear ranching, however, is that you KNOW they want to kill you. There has been plenty of accidents with hippos in zoos that seemed completely tame and even loving towards their care takers... until they one day woke up and chose violence. So of the two options... I'm not entirely sure rearing hippos is the smarter one..
@@andersjjensen there are quite a few happy stories of people nursing crocs back to health and then living in the same place with no incidents, i have only heard of one time an abandoned baby hippo was raised by humans alone and when it was grown up it suddenly chose it doesn't like the caretakers anymore and killed them
So was the Auroch and we tamed that. Also, you could just make them smaller to avoid the issue as then they would be too afraid of humans and our dogs to act out.
@@andersjjensen Polar bears are just predators. Hippos might actually be psychos.
Polar bear ranching😂🤣💜
How about the Nutria fur farms here in America in the late 19th & early 20th century? "Let's bring a highly invasive, giant swamp rat to America & try to convince ladies to wear its fur." Who thought this was a good idea?
They're also delicious, but sadly since it's "game meat" it can't be sold commercially.
Apparently something similar happened in South Korea, with nutria escaping and going feral and multiplying. Farmers discovered that the idea of eating exotic "health food" nutria meat just didn't catch on with the public, so they gave up.
Early 20th? My uncle had Nutria in the 70s!
@@SY-ok2dq LOL Mink aren't native where I'm from, so the first one I ever saw was one night, walking my dog, a pair of escaped Mink were beelining it for the river. I had to Google them to figure out WTF I'd just seen (they're awkward AF on land!). Dog wasn't thrilled about them waltzing through her territory like that either!
@@wilfdarr There's several living in the riverbanks near me. They tend to rapidly accelerate erosion by burrowing into riverbanks that are.already near collapse.
6:02 oh boy, trying to eliminate one invasive species with another - what could possibly go wrong?
I suppose at least hippos are a bit easier to eliminate if they get out of hand than plants and all their little seedlings.
No, that's the beautiful part, when winter rolls around the gorillas simply freeze
@@toddwebb7521 hi princeskipple skipper
Australia tried that with cane toads.
And as you can see, it backfired horribly.
Literally the final episode of Dinosaurs.
Ask people in the South how easy it has been to eliminate wild boar (or feral pig).
"Why would you farm the one of the grumpiest animals in the world?"
"It worked with the goose!"
Geese are excellent guard animals, like llamas and donkeys. You put up with the attitude because they bring certain benefits, but only to a point: most farms only have just enough of the above to guard their herds/flocks or to maintain the next generation, no more than absolutely necessary at any rate.
@@wilfdarr they also are far less dangerous than a single hippo.
@@RonnieG Yes, so double the reason to only have a many as you need, in this case, zero! There's no positive angle for them here! 😁
I fully endorse this idea, on the grounds that thousands of morons will likely be killed in the process
Geese don't weigh 4 tons and can't pop you like a grape, in their teeth. Which, BTW, hippos are willing to do.
The oryx were brought into New Mexico from Africa for exhibit at the Albuquerque Zoo. Later their offspring were taken to White Sands Missile Range in southern NM for exotic game hunting for the locals. They reproduced rapidly because they mate all year round and thrived to the point they became pests for ranchers. I think hippos would do serious damage to the ecosystem in the south, however I would like to try the meat.
I wonder if they would do as much damage as feral hogs, as they seem more water dependent? Like a choice of being blown up with dynamite or black powder, maybe.
It's a plain whitish meat...tastes exactly like a pork chop (but doesn't everything:-)).
Not familiar with the southern water ways but I imagine Texas and other border states where it's hot and more like Africa might be a better place no?
There are also African Barbary Sheep (a wild sheep species) and Chamois living wild in the American Southwest.
Orks is one of the best meats I've had in New Mexico!
Learned about the hippos in South America thanks to Hammond, May and Clarkson. Lol
That version of top gear is the best and re runs should be on every network. They were hilarious and informative. Love that show.
Same!!!
"I can't believe we made it through the whole episode without anyone saying cocaine."
What kind of wine pairs with Hippo? Cabernet Zoovignon?
Obviously Australian Shiraz~
@@imyourdaddy5822 Shiraz? How much of Simon's favorite powder are you on? It's malbec, anyone not on copious amounts of cocaine will tell you that
I would think a beer would be best.
Ecosystem destruction aside, farming animals is actually like the best thing to ensure they don't go extinct.
Yeah but you’re gonna get some crazy selective breeding effects. Ever look at what chickens and cows looked like 100 years ago? They’re hardline the same animals
Hippos need to go extinct. I'm a Captain Planet baby saying that. Hippos are the most murderous, nasty, aggressive vertebrates in the world. They kill more people than any other animal does, and they don't even eat them. They're also useless. They crap up rivers, hoover up grass the better animals need, and don't provide the environment with anything. We should eat them all and not feel bad about it. Oh and the males kill their own babies routinely.
I can appreciate what you are getting at, but are a hundred or even a thousand domesticated, bred-for-stupidity individuals worth even one truly wild one?
@@Aliandrin But that is their best quality! Life should not be easy for anyone (except maybe retired old farts like me)
@@dbmail545 I agree life should not be easy for anyone. Let's make life hard for hippos by genociding them.
A lot of people are quite shocked to find out just how dangerous hippopotamuses can be.
Hippopotami
That's probably a big part of why the DEA and the Colombian army just said "Screw it, it's not MY problem" when it came to Escobar's pets. The weapons that are perfectly adequate for assassinating drug kingpins, not so great against something ten times the mass and even more murdery.
You have to go to some effort to piss off an elephant or rhino, and the big cats don't eat people unless there's extenuating circumstances (normally we're not worth the effort when there's a herd of zebra or wildebeest around, but if the lion has a toothache and can't take down its normal prey ...) Hippos, on the other hand, just hate every other living thing, they'll flip your boat and literally bite you in half (well, bite off the top third, at least) just for having the AUDACITY to float down their section of the river.
@@brandonford8092 Hippoptapodes
We are lulled by hand-raised Fiona.
@@DeliveryMcGee hiphopamotasus
and now I'm singing "All I want for Christmas is a Hippopotamus".
Damnit thanks alot that's in my head now😬
Hippo wrangling might well have become the Rodeo's premier show, challenging bull riding and bucking bronco events.
😂 Most southern thing I've ever seen. Let's do it
Too dangerous hippo can easily cut u a half
This video was less descriptive of how hippo tastes than I was expecting leaving me unable to answer the question.
That’s what my son wanted to know. That’s why I watched the video. 😂
@@Andreamom001 same.....
For y’all, it’s a rich red meat but on the fatty side like mutton. Pretty alright, up there with pork and beef.
Hippo is meat is delicious. I would equate it to lamb. I've eaten it many times in Zimbabwe and enjoy it greatly. It is a red meat, like most animals not a white meat like pork or feline.
@@jk-kr8jt wait, you're serious? Is it dangerous to eat like you hear about other African bush meats?
The reasons why people eat or don't eat various animals, and to what extent their meat is valued, is such a rich topic that a whole book could probably be written on it, and be fascinating from cover to cover. But here's a neat little factoid I learned when I won a storage unit at auction and one of the content items was a box of American restaurant menus collected from the 1940's-1970's, and seeing they could have some value on Ebay I began researching them one-by-one. The most memorable was for a mom-n-pop restaurant in Memphis, so old that a whole T-bone steak dinner was 4 dollars and some-odd cents, and even the most expensive meal, the lobster dinner, was just $5-something. When I researched the restaurant's history, it turned out to be one of first in the South to even offer lobster, and it took A WHILE to catch on. The reason was, people saw lobsters as simply giant crayfish, which they basically are, and not only are crayfish abundant in the south; back then crayfish was generally considered 'poor people food', so why the hell would you pay more than T-bone steak money for a 1-lb crayfish?! You might argue that lobster tastes better than crayfish and requires less work to open one lobster tail than a dozen or more crayfish tails on a plate, but really the reason southerners finally got on board with the lobster luxury food bandwagon was purely media influence. Not until rich people could be viewed on screen dining on lobster could a southerner feel dignified eating lobster publicly.
LOL YES! I had a conversation with a captain I was flying with who was a Newfi, he said that all the rich kids would bring steak to school and all the poor kids would eat lobster. I'm from Alberta so all the poor kids brought steak and all the rich kids brought lobster!
@@wilfdarr Ha that's funny, but I'm American (raised in Iowa in the Midwest, then lived more than half my life in the deep South), and I've never heard of children bringing EITHER steak or lobster for school lunch. Just sandwiches, apples, that sort of thing.
@@audreymuzingo933 My mom sold Tupperware, ergo, my friends all had Tupperware. And leftovers. 😁
A few days ago I had a brainwave: shark farming.
Thank you, Mr Whistler, I no longer fear for my sanity.
I’m just imaging an alternate US with a feral hippo problem.
Lmao would actually have a fair excuse for owning magnum sniper rifles, automatic shotguns, and grenade launchers.
Edit: just saw the most ‘Murica! comment about hippos being the main spectacle of the rodeo shows.
Not more than hunting gear. They have good meat on them.
We already have a "fair excuse" it's called the 2nd amendment
@@burquebandit7169 yee haw!
@@burquebandit7169 This is the most 'murican comment I've seen today.
Actually, Simon, as a proper pedant, I can inform you that, as the word 'hippopotamus' is Greek in origin, the proper plural is 'hippopotamoi'. Even if 'octopus' is also of Greek origin, the same does not go for it; the proper plural for 'octopus' is 'octopodes'.
Always learn something new each day with Simon's videos! This is an underrated channel that more people need to check out
9 minutes in, and I still haven't gotten my Hippos in the bayou story I've been waiting for.
Shame. I wanted a story of a farmer trying to herd this hyper-aggressive animal.
Remember, the H in hippo stands for Homicide.
The I stands for injuries.
P for pain
Second P stands for MORE pain
O is for "Oh Fuck, where did the bastard go, it just submerged"!
Simon should cover the father-son gourmand duo William and Francis Buckland; the duo who quite literally tasted one of every animal they could acquire.
Okay, when's Burnham getting the Biographics treatment he deserves?🤨🧐
As does his counterpart, Duquesne?
I grew up in Montana and I remember when they tried to get everyone to raise emo.
Red meat, lean, very healthy tastes great ,hardy easily survive winter and summer, cheap to feed and raise, almost no methane production. Missed opportunity
Yeah Emo’s raise real cheap, they don’t fuss much and easy to farm, just don’t play them hip hop or they get ornery and it spoils the milk.
I never knew this, where in the state? Eastern MT?
They do it now with ostrich. Same meat, but bigger quantity. Super healthy birds, can be left alone in a big field. There's loads of ostrich farms in Germany, Lithuania and so on. I used to get the scraps to make cat food. And ate the eggs myself.
@@anadubar4819 I LOVE ostrich, a lot of Jews actually disagree over whether it's kosher or not though, good thing I don't keep kosher lol.
Emo, a moody bird, but tasty nonetheless.
Can I suggest you do a video on another good idea gone bad, the introduction of the Nutria. Brought to U.S. swamplands from South America as a substitute for beaver to make beaver hats, the nutria have escaped and wrecked havoc on American wildlands and wildlife. We have them here in Austin, Texas on the Colorado River in Towne Lake, now Lady Bird Lake. There is also the introduction of the Kudzu vine, an invasive species that has done more damage than possibly anything ever introduced to North American except maybe homo sapiens europeansus.
Or the 13%'ers
Gotta be a badass to suggest domesticating the most homicidal animal in Africa. They're living, breathing Sherman tanks
I love the big sky out of the box thinking from the late-1800’s/early-1900’s. Such a terribly misguided idea; but also inspired. Giraffes on the other hand…..they have to be better than eating insects.
I love the hyperbolic quotes by boosters but my new favourite phrases are "lake cow bacon" and "homely as a steamroller".
0:42
I don't understand why the thought of killing something with feces sounds so funny
How many different channels does this man have? Lol I feel like I find a new one every day
Alive or in general? Since xplrd was declared dead I think we're back to twelve
1 TIFO
2 Top Tenz
3 Highlight History
4 Biographics
5 Geographics
6 Warographics
7 Megaprojects
8 Side projects
9 Brain Blaze
10 Causal Criminalist
11 into the shadows
12 decoding the unknown
I think those are all that are officially alive
Dead :
* Personal Simon channel (all but one video were deleted it was a personal vlog of 2016)
*The Simon whistler show (hope the second guy started his animal channel)
*Xplrd (sorely missed recent death)
*Brainfood show a podcast with Daven
*VisualPoilicsEn the guy who doesn't care for politics got bored and left the channel
@@stephjovi damn lol I was not expecting that many
@@zoehicks880 really? Well now you know 😂lots to catch up on depending what you like. I'm subbed to all of them but ignore Warographics
I don't like war
What a hilariously stupid idea. I'd absolutely never heard of this but I am very glad that I have now. Thank you!
Was how dangerous they are just not that widely known there? Especially to a dude especially as competent as Burnham?
Natural selection
America definitely need some man eating water monster to keep the folk agile and health
Dragging an incredibly violent and undomesticated animal to another continent in the hopes that you can sell its meat when you have absolutely no clue if anyone would be interested in eating it *and* assuming that it's going to happily eat the water hyacinth when it completely ignores it in Africa and eats grass instead is absolutely hilariously stupid.
@@Automedon2 never seen a more silly comment, "migrated" u mean shipped or extended their habbitat over millions of years? how does a aquatic plant without predators should be controlled in a new locations? if it isnt controlled how do u feel about 0 animals and plants on the river? u can check australia invasion of rabbits in australia aswell. bottom species in the food chain cannot ever go to ambients where they arent controled as they will grow faster, more strong and choke endemic species just bc 2 plants side by side 1 is getting eaten the other one is not and eventually due to competicion and getting eaten the endemic plant will go extint. ecossistems have perfect ballences if the plant extended its reach by its own would mean predators would be able to follow the path aswell and control it, with shipping u could cross the world over and over in 1 day with only the plant but the predator will certainly not follow them naturally. its very new invention bc humans crossing continents with boats, or aircraft is equally new, seems logic to me, the migrations ur talking about take many more years tham the entire human existance and occor mostly with large size catastrophes.
@@Automedon2 holly fuck u are saying that plants travel continents via birds? Let me ask u how long does the plant exist and the bird exist and the migratory circuit exist? Yhea i also think so. Invasive species like sheep and cattle don't usually roam around even if they do their pop is always controlled, nobody thinks earth won't keep evolving but the way it's evolution isn't evolving is just extermination of species new plants won't emerge if their pop is decimated in 20 years. About the rabbits yeah dingo sees meat dingo strikes dingo kills. Funny how u think dingos 1° immediately sees a rabbit as food 2° manages to outrun a rabbit since they have 0 strategies to a new specie's. The plants evolve defences at the animals too but against rabbits they are just in a full plate served bc they never have faced similar creature.
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, but a 20 lbs. turkey will have to do. No room in the refrigerator for the big lug. Besides where am I going to find four paper booties to go on those big roaster legs?
Wait...this was supposed to take place in Louisiana?! oh heck no, we got enough trouble with nutria eating the local muskrat population out of house and home
Yes, attempting to tame and farm the African Murder Waterhorse. For its meat. When it's mostly fat, which is part of why it has basically no predators... getting through all the fat to do any real DAMAGE is near impossible without elephant-sized tusks.
A brilliant idea. Totally wouldn't have backfired at all. What's next, bear farming?
It's better than triffids.
Bear farming is a thing. Unfortunately. The poor fuckers are kept in cages for their bile. Don't thank me, I enjoy ruining people's day!
As pointed out already, sadly, bears ARE farmed - for their bile though, not meat. However, those are Asiatic bears, which are relatively small. They're not ferocious huge grizzly bears.
That said, back in the old days of white settlers expanding across America, the bears of North America were hunted and eaten by some of those settlers. Bear meat is mentioned in the Little House on the Prairie books (can't remember which species though).The Ingalls ate the meat, and used the thick furry bearskins as winter rugs and blankets.
@@SY-ok2dq in Little House in the Big Woods, the author mentions that Pa (Charles Ingalls) uses bear grease to slick his hair back during his courtship with Ma, who had a waist so small Pa could encircle it with his fingers. Quite the beauty ideals.
Hippos are NOT mostly fat. The meat is actually very good. Under the thick hide there is a layer of fat, but under that is plenty of delicious meat.
Imagine going fishing just to get killed by last nights supper lol
However i can see an alternate, much more deadly universe where instead of Cow boys we had Hippo boys!
The world needs even more Simon Whistler channels. Simon, can you make three RUclips channels a week? I challenge you.
Weirdest thing I've giggled now:
Are hippos kosher?
No
How come they aren’t kosher? Is it their open hooves or because it’s a water animal?
@@DoctorProph3t they actually don't have hooves. Actually they are toes I guess.
Oops. Just saw "giggled". Lol. GOOGLED
Well they're sort of related to pigs, which is why it's not surprising that hippo meat is fatty and tastes similar to pork.
@@SY-ok2dq “Sort of” is doing a lot of heavy lifting 😉
Hippo ranching... concrete walls around the swamp harpoon and crane harvesting totally doable!
“Enormously invasive species”
Simon’s describing his beard again.
Burnham, along with Pablo Escobar probably had a favorite Christmas song: "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"😀
There's a novel set in an alternate US where that happened, River of Teeth. I think they also ride them.
When I was really young, there was a hippo at a local dairy in southern California. It was in a little enclosure with a bit of water to lounge in, and the dairy had "Sam the Hippo" as a mascot on their cartons. Never heard an explanation as to why a dairy would even have a hippo, much less as a mascot (the other big dairy line in the area had "Bessie" the cow), but I wonder now if it was there as a left-over from this scheme.
Fun fact, someone recently started a petition to feed the water hyacinths to manatees, which are starving because of polluted coastal waters. Win/win.
Actually that isn't such a fun fact, now I've put it like that.
I wonder if we feed it to them, they’ll garner a taste for it, and then they’ll begin feeding on the plants.
The plants are kept in check, and the manatees get a new source of food.
If anyone has never tried eating hippo - let me assure you that it's delicious meat & surprisingly lean meat. I am from Zimbabwe & whilst we predominantly eat beef, chicken, pork & sheep, I have hunted hippo & made delicious hippo burgers, sausages & steaks - it was Frederick Courtney Selous' favourite meat so that must stand for something!
I Want a Hippopotamus (Farm) for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do.
2 things.
First what does Hippopotamus taste like.
Second
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door
That's the easy thing to do
I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
Oh, what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see my hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
A hippopotamus is all I want
Mom says the hippo would eat me up
But then teacher says a hippo is a vegetarian
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
The kind I saw this summer at the zoo
There's lots of room for him in our two car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there
And give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs
Oh, what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see my hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Thank you for helping me understand why there were so many who randomly stated that they wanted one for Christmas....
This is a hell of a jingle.
My wife tortures me with that song every christmas
I can just imagine the Colombian faunae reacting to the feral hippos. Crocodiles thought they were some kind of land manatees and got stomped for their error. Real manatees took a look at them and said, "WTF is the matter with those guys? Are they Harold's cousins?" And the fish just wondered why the river was browner than usual.
I live in South Louisiana. I'm SO glad this effort failed. The Nutria was enough of disaster, and a Hippo is
a thousand times worse.
I mean I might try a hippo steak, sounds interesting. The US is having enough trouble with escaped feral hogs though.
hippos should be much more easy to control, they dont breed as much, they are easier to spot, they live closer to water ways in exchange they are indeed much more destructive but a shot on the head as the same effect on both :D
A friend of mine, that has hunted game all over the world, swears that hippo steak is the best tasting steak.
@@reusablestinger3164 but 5.56 (a popular boar hunting caliber due to the availability of both 5.56 ammo and 30 round mags for it because boars commonly roam in packs of dozens), can't down a hippo as far as I'm aware. You think gun control now is a hellscape of "ban whatever the poor people use in X action movie" wait till gun control (AKA only police get guns) advocates find out about 308 or even higher caliber rifles that hold more than 5 rounds.
@@steel8231 tf does weapon control and wtf has to do with the differences between hippo and boar? Further more I'm European I live well without a mental Ill person shot some people at your local school due to easy access to guns. With pos and negs I don't see a reason why the general population of my country need easy access to guns.
I believe elephants were “tried out” as well. There’s still a law on the books in some mid southern state regulating elephants.
Now, I'm very curious as to how hippopotamus meat tastes. I can imagine walking into McDonald's for a double cheese-hippo burger. I wonder if I can order it from Amazon?
"And that's where the hippos came in" is probably one of the best sentences said on this channel
American history is full of horror like any nation but also like any nation it's got alot of bat shit insane, absurd and down right funny history too.
The camel thing I always wondered about especially after finding out that the bottom half of the US and Mexico had native camels that went extinct!
The part about military scouts not having a modern equivalent is not quite true. The same skills apply to most Special Forces units.
I would absolutely try hippo steak. I would love to try some of every potentially edible animal on earth
I wish humans would stop eating EVERYTHING. My god. And this is coming from someone that eats meat. Like damn. Stop eating all the animals ya dolts.
I never really thought about that before but now that I hear it, that does sound so awesome.
@@TheQueenOfSheba Be quiet and have a T bone !!
@@goddam9925 no.
@@TheQueenOfSheba Obviously the problem lies with eating everything *from the wild*. Before an animal can be considered edible it needs to be free of cross-compatible pathogens. But once the pathogen profile is known any animal that is better adapted to turning scrublands into meat than what we currently have would be a boon if they also happen to taste good. Personally I like ostrich a lot, but it kinda went out of fashion locally. Which is a shame, as they convert grass to meat at a better rate than cows.
Fun fact, there is still a Hippo in Florida. Lu is a local celebrity at that state park. Because "of course, it's florida". . .
Yes totally want a hippo 🥩
Why is Peter on the wrong side of the desk? Wait, which of Simons many channels am I watching??? Sounds like a BrainBlaze topic but delivered as a "Today I Found Out"... mind blown.
Octopus, octopuses, and octopi are all accepted pluralizations of Octopus, but the "most correct" would be Octopodes.
Well Octopi isn't acceptable but certainly the correct Greek would be Octopodes and the English has become octopuses
Highly recommend the book River of Teeth, which is historical fiction about American hippo farming
This is the first time in my entire life that I've seen someone else use my favorite word "pulchritudinous" and you absolutely butchered the pronounciation. It means lovely or beautiful btw
*legend has it, the rest of that spy ring has been kept alive through experimental medical procedures and medications* 🤣
This man can not pronounce Bayou. For anyone wondering, just say it like "Bye You." And you're doing good.
I love how writing in the old days was 1 sentence with 50 commas and goes on for 5 days before they reach the main point
Nice, very informative and stuff I hadn't heard of. The lack of trying to sell me stuff made it a joy to listen to this one :)
I'd imagined the way you ranch them is by having multiple airboats mounted with 50Cal machine guns and snipers surrounding them and harvesting them
"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas"..... 🤠
The problem of the Colombian hippos is easy to solve. There are only a hundred of then, just declare open season on them until they are all dead. Plenty of hunters will jump at the opportunity for a trophy they probably could never get otherwise.
I think this was tried, but some misguided people blocked it because protecting one horrifically invasive and dangerous group animals is apparently more important than an entire ecosystem. I love animals but I'm 100% with culling invasive or out of control populations for the good of an ecosystem.
You never fail to amaze me, Simon! Great presentation! Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.
Given the number of people already killed by hippos annually, I'm so glad this was not a successful endeavor. Humanity, in all it's stupidity, never ceases to baffle me.
Can't say I agree with "farming hippos" for a plethora of reasons.
But I'd try me a hippo steak.
This is one of the prime examples why they say Americans are stupid... Smdh...I'm totally gobsmacked... Like, why hippos?!
There are some men in Congress who have no idea how female anatomy works, so there you go. And
hippopotamus is just another name for “murder cow”. Yes, we have some really stupid people here.
6:09 Great plan. Keeping one aggressive invasive species in check with another aggressive invasive species ... What possibly could go wrong?
Damn, now I really want a hippo steak... oh and Giraffe loin!
Back in the day, I read a pretty good Si-Fi book where they tamed and milked whales.
I bet this idea inspired the author.
At 35-50% fat that would make some pretty rich ice cream! But on the plus side, at 200L a day you wouldn't need a lot of them!
The plural of of hippopotamus being hippopotami is owed to the Greek word first being filtered through Latin.
What a fantastic video. Great job, perfect narration, writing, and editing of material. Learned a good bit about something I had no idea was ever even a thing.
We don’t have hippos.
But we do have other exotic ungulates like gemsbok, nilgai, axis deer, and auodad sheep running around the southwest, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
There’s a bunch more exotic ungulates on private hunting ranches, like kudu, eland, wildebeest, zebra, bongo, waterbuck, lechwe, giraffe, and many more.
Why did it never occur to these people that there already was a *domesticated* water buffalo, whose husbandry is well known in some parts of the world (South and Southeast Asia, though it is supposedly the basis of real mozzarella cheese in Italy, so there also) and which is likely far less violent (domestication favors "sociability" though all bovines are large enough to be somewhat dangerous if mishandled)?
Simon has more channels on RUclips than there are channels that aren’t his.
Imagine living in the swamp and having to deal with hippos attacking your airboat docks. Seems like a bad idea to let them roam like that. That said, I now have an overwhelming desire to know what hippo meat tastes like. What, if any, are the tender cuts? Would it be pricey like beef, or cheap like pork?
Water hyacinth can be a valuable resource harvested with drone boats that use a chain conveyer belt in the water to bring the plants aboard grind them screw press the water out and then store in hold fill up and go to base for unloading you could use it for animal feed biofuel farm soil fertilizer and so on.
8:32 Wait a second, so you're telling me that it's not said "octopussies"??
Oh... oh boy...
Today I learned about this crazy story. Thanks Simon and Co!
@13:53 Kitchener was in “The King’s Man,” played by Charles Dance aka lord tywin from GoT
🦁 You should do a video about Ted Turner’s idea of re-wilding African megafauna into the Midwest. This was to save the species and replace the extinct but similar megafauna that once roamed America during the Pleistocene.
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This reminds me of the hippo on the spit in that educational video where Homer learns to build a grill
Well, I'd try hippo steak. I don't know if I'd keep eating it. Also, big animals are generally less enviornmentally friendly to farm for consumption than smaller animals...
Holy crap Simon! Another channel to subscribe to. You blow my mind dude and I swear we need a megaprojects on you!
I would absolutely try hippo, given the opportunity!
Hippo? It's what's for dinner! Gimme a belt fed and a helicopter.... a walled compound may work
Some of Davies' camels descendance can still be found in Biloxi MS at his old house
Did these guys not know that gators already lived in the swamps and taste great or was this by the point gators had been near wiped out?
Good lord how many channels does this guy have??? At least 5 if not more. Must be a new way of defeating the algorithms or something
Imagine trying to domesticate a meat source that can crush a watermelon with its teeth like a grape.
Happened across a book at a local educational institution on agricultural statistics for war production.
It claims chicken as the leader in protein production during those times, and it was was by a staggering margin. Yet you never here anything about the issue of chicken k-rations, was it all consumed as fresh poultry or was it all kept for the home front? I can't remember what the full story was but it was worth the time that I would have otherwise wasted. Cheers!