had suggested bringing in manatees from florida. to eat the water hyacinthths in the river. apparently it s like their favorite food. they can eat 100 pounds of those weeds a day or something. manatees are impractical to be moved from florida to stockton. even though the stockton mayor suggested that idea. without the manatees they have come up with the next best thing. so behold stockton got hippos instead. this is a photo today from the california water blog which is an excellent blog. and the california water blog as you can see in this picture, it shows this pod of hippos that the city of stockton brought in to graze on the weeds around the big industrial port. they brought this herd of hippos from batsotswana. they radio tagged them so they don t lose them. they keep people far away because the hippos don t much like people. other than that, it is