Okay. I don't have a list of feelings for you to choose from today. I guess my categories are all feeling based. I chose one, and this is not gonna be happy feelings. I guess I was feeling like Taylor, and I chose this. April 8, 2025. CBS News. Is that a good or a bad one, Taylor? It's reasonable. You keep track. Okay, thank you. Fine by me. No author. Dozens of hippos die in anthrax poisoning in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Oh
no! Those aren't the hippos who need dying! I know, they're the opposite of the hippos that need dying. And we don't need anything in favour of the hippos that need dying. So, Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park, which is located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Troubled East, the head of the park
told AFP on Tuesday. The toxin is caused by a spore -forming bacterium, Alocas anthracis, which survives for decades in soil where animals that died of anthrax or where carriers were buried. It is transmissible to humans and potentially fatal in its inhaled form. Hippopotamuses were found floating in a river south of Lake Edward, oh my god, which separates the DRC from Uganda. Park director Emmanuel Demirode said, the local
office of the Congolese Institute. It's gotta take some time for you to approach a floating hippo and being like, is that a dead hippo? Well, I'm definitely looking at a photo and it definitely looks like a dead hippo. It's a very sad photo. The local office of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation in the North Kivu province.
where the dead hippos were found recommended precautionary measures including avoiding eating bushmeat quote although this disease mainly affects wildlife it poses a potential risk of transmission to humans as well as domestic animals end quote said the body which manages national parks in the drc did you just say the body said that like the hippo body said the body local office of the congolese i think that's what they're referring to by the body right you don't think it's the
hippo bodies okay no probably not gases releasing from their body. They bogus us to do all sorts of things. Oh, I make lights because we have to. Varuga National Park was established in 1925 and is renowned for its wildlife, particularly mountain gorillas and magnificent landscapes. It is located at the heart of conflicts that have been tearing the Eastern DRC apart for the
past 30 years. Just last week, Congolese President Felix Tshishkedi commuted the death sentences of three Americans who had been convicted on charges of participating in a botched 2024 coup attempt. Pardon came as Congolese authorities hoped to strike a minerals deal with the US in exchange for security support that could help the DRC fight Rwandan -backed M23 rebels in the conflict hit east of the country. several times in Varunga and other nature reserves in Africa.
Is that not weird? I'm hoping that they give us more information on this because I'm pretty confused myself right now. I'm wondering why. I always thought of like a forced poisoning when it was Anthrax, but it's sounding like it's really not. It sounds like it's naturally occurring, but it's not really giving any more details, right? Am I right? No, it sounds very natural. According to the Varunga website, the park was home to the largest hippo population in the world.
in the 1970s. About 29 ,000 animals, but since then instability in the region has led to increased poaching and a 95 % decline in the size of the population. Jesus Christ. The World Wildlife Fund lists hippos as a vulnerable species with an estimated 115 ,000 to 130 ,000 believed to live in the wild globally. That's like all of the ones in South America. Oh yeah, we might have to root for those hippos. I hope those weren't the only five that were in Africa. That was the
end of the article. Wow. That took a sad article and just left me sad and confused and torn. Yeah, it brings a new light to the South American hippos and how important they are to the species. And the important conservation work of drug dealers in that region. Yeah, I guess we gotta change our colours on that and root for them now. How did they get anthrax? I don't know enough about anthrax. Outside of those scares in like 2001,
I know nothing about it. That's what I envisioned too, so I was hoping for more information in that article, but it was pretty limited, unfortunately. I'm sorry about this Wednesday to you. That's okay, we're giving people 48 hours to have some perspective and then come back here for some fun, because we very rarely make you guys sad upset in the Friday episode. I hope so. That's what we do. That's true, that's true. I thought you meant Wednesdays and I was like, I don't
know. It's generally sad. Anyhow, bye. Bye.