It’s true. Feral hog hunters recently shot a pygmy hippo in Australia.
The animal was apparently roaming free for several years.
Get the details on this pygmy hippo incident.
And, just for fun: Would sighting this pygmy hippo “count” for life lists? 🙂
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Wow – thanks Matt. Incredible that it could have survived for so long is such a different habitat!
It would be cool to see, but it wouldn’t count for me. I don’t tend to count feral populations, and it sounds like this was one animal, not a population.
I would count feral/introduced populations if they are free-living, breeding in the wild over a period of time, and not totally dependent on humans for survival. I don’t think the pygmy hippos in this case count for the second reason.