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Here's a fun, short alt-history novel set in a world where that plan was actually implemented:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31445891-river-of-teeth

> Probably a good thing that there is not a population of thousands of feral hippopotamus going around.

You've heard of the "Cocaine Hippos", right?

yep,

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=pab...

I like the idea. Worst case they are more harm than help to the environment and wind up catching hot lead because of it. Large herbivores don't have the same potential to accidentally spread unnoticed or evade apex predators (us) like carp do. It wouldn't be the first time we've eradicated a large herbivore from the continent and it probably won't be the last.

Given that hippos are notorious people killers I am glad this never happened.

Pablo Escobar's hippos are (were?) a pest in Colombia.