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University of Massachusetts Amherst: Pablo Escobar's Hippos May Help Counteract Legacy of Extinctions
March 24, 2020
AMHERST, Massachusetts, March 24 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- The University of Massachusetts Amherst campus issued the following news:

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- Study from international team of researchers including UMass Amherst biologist John Rowan shows introduced species can restore a lost world

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When cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was shot dead in 1993, the four hippos he brought to his private zoo in Colombia were left behind in a pond on his ranch. Since . . .

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