Tag: Hippopotamuses

Colombia to Sterilize Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’

When the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, most of the animals he had imported as pets — zebras, giraffes, kangaroos and rhinoceroses — died or were transferred to zoos. But not his four hippopotamuses. They thrived. Perhaps a little too well. Officials estimate that about 170 hippos, descended from Mr. Escobar’s […]

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