Season 2 is here with a bang - Pablo Escobar's theme park and zoo backfired spectacularly,  and we have a driving animal who is absolutely better than most Boston drivers. Alright, let's do this!
 


Resources for today:
Invasive Hippos:
 The Truth about Animals by Lucy Cooke (book)
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-colombia-can-get-rid-of-pablo-escobars-hippos-2021-6

https://www.grunge.com/186303/how-pablo-escobars-former-hippos-are-ruining-colombia/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/colombia-cocaine-hippos-rewilding-experiment-news?loggedin=true

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Geography/Land-area/Square-miles

 Driving goldfish :
 The authors of “From fish out of water to new insights on navigation mechanisms in animals” published in Behavioral Brain Science.( Shachar Givon, Matan Samina, Ohad Ben-Shahar, Ronen Segev)

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