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The Toronto Zoo has announced the birth of a third pygmy hippo calf to 20-year-old mother Kindia. The calf, born after a four-hour labor and brief delivery, is already nursing and moving around, though the zoo says it will monitor the pair closely due to species survival challenges.
Indian officials have proposed a controversial plan to release apex predators like crocodiles and venomous snakes along the border with Bangladesh to deter illegal migration and smuggling, instead of building fences in difficult terrain. Human rights and wildlife conservation activists have expressed alarm, warning of ecological disruption and danger to local communities. The plan echoes past proposals in the U.S. and has no modern precedent.
Indian billionaire's son Anant Ambani revives a plan to relocate 80 hippos, descendants of Pablo Escobar's pets, to his private zoo in Gujarat to save them from culling in Colombia. The proposal faces logistical, ethical, and environmental controversies as the hippo herd has become a major ecological threat in Colombia.
